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I relay do not know what is in the mine of those idiots. Generally Westerns companies when they do multiple re-mastering of the same peace they try to make it better. With Russian is it looks like not there case

In 90s EMI released on CD the indispensable 1953 performance of de Sabata’s Tosca with Callas, Stefano, Gobbi. I am sure most of you have multiple pressing of that album and a CD copy. Couple years ago EMI re-mastered the Sabata’s Tosca 1953. The sound become much better, whatever they did, but it was well worth to get a new "pressing" of the Sabata’s 1953 Tosca.

In 1992 Russian Melodia released Onegin 1955. The release was slightly too “hot” but near survivable. A few weeks ago someone told me that the Onegin 1955 was re-mastered in near 2000. Since the performance also well worth it. I ordered my copy of the “new” Onegin 1955. When I got it I recognized that it was not juts horrible Sound but it was hardly recognizable sound. I am not kidding. The compression on the disk so high that words are hardly recognizable and when the  magnificent Khaikin’s orchestra plays then they sound like one single gray noise of fluctuating density. It is amassing in what kind crap the Melodia converted the glorious Onegin 1955 performance….

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