Well done Steve! I really appreciate the fact you've done some research and explained to the viewer how these reissues came to be. :)

Review starts at 5:10

A lot of good knowledge about the album put out here. I haven’t listened to the Abbey Road pressing but the MoFi is superb and meets all of my standards. Keep the videos coming!!!

I have every MoFi 45 rpm pressing of Dire Straits' studio albums except their last one, On Every Street. I'd really love to see them press that one too!!

Thanks Steve! Love your introduction about the album in add to the comparison.

I appreciate that you put all this info into the video but as someone who already knows most of what you’re saying about the record itself, I just wanted to get to the comparison! Not trying to be rude, just wanted to suggest maybe adding a time stamp for where the actual pressing comparison begins in the description for future comparison videos.

Great stuff Steve! I guess I lucked up getting #344 for my MOFI. I also agree the MOFI is ever so much better, but you can't go wrong with either for an excellent pressing of this album.

Hi once again Steve. I am subscribing from my second YT site also so I can comment from either one depending which one I am logged into at a specific time. I love Dire Straits and I might be going out on a limb but I think any of these high quality pressings will be worth substantial money as time goes on since all the artists you mention in your videos that I brushed over for now and I will watch more in depth as time allows are very high quality artists, whether in classic rock or classic jazz genres and they deserve the ultimate preservation going forward and I worry that each time the original master tape is used for doing yet another transfer, more wear and tear degrading is happening to the tapes, whether analog or digital and the hope is the remastering engineers can extract as many nuances as possible and hope for best alignment and tape to head contact. I know that all music deserves to be preserved for both current and future generations but one genre I still have not accepted (and I am trying to find something I can enjoy from it) is Rap(Hip Hop)!! Possibly I will find either a specific song or artist in the Rap genre I like but it has not happened yet in my music listening world!! Big hugs and thanks for bringing these great and timeless artists the attention they deserve!! Happy weekend and keep making these informative videos!!...Friends, Lloyd.

Nicely done, subbed. Cheers, Tim

I have the original pressing and the Abby Road pressing. I was glad to get both of them on vinyl! I was going to get the MOFI pressing but heard the was an issue with the pressing so I decided to get the Abby Road pressing instead when it was released. Thank you for your review of it.

7:39 Talking about the engineering, etc. This is one of the albums I most want to get on vinyl. My main interest in having albums I love on vinyl is because, for the most part, they were produced using largely analogue processing, and I really think that's what gives vinyl albums the "soul" you don't hear in digital formats. During my research on this album I found out, it turns out "Brothers in Arms" was one of the first albums to employ almost, if not entirely, all digital production (!) Talk about a fart in the face. I actually have a digital copy of a very good vinyl transfer, and... Somehow it still has that "soul." I can't wait to hear how a good vinyl pressing sounds... AT-LP120/cork slip mat/Ortofon 2M Red premounted on headshell > Onkyo TX-NR616 receiver > Pioneer SP-FS52 Andrew Jones Design floor standing speakers (if I only do it in stereo. I could also do it in 7.1 all-channel stereo)

Well steve now we really know how this album was done 14 months later, yes we were all surprised but never mind still a great review, just found it because i could get the mifi one now but maybe i’ll just be satisfied with the abbey road pressing. Keep up the good work steve.

Great!! 👏👏👏

You are right. You are certainly not rude. You make your point. Maybe I aspected more background information reviewd .relating to the technical aspects of the recording and coding methods of both and see which sound better to your opinion and you did in a honest opinion. Cheers

My Rhino "Start Your Ear Off Right" reissue sounds absolutely amazing!

was Dire Strait's first digital recording

they all sound good!!!Or does MOFI sound better?Should I buy MOFI?Thank you!

I hope the Abby Road Edition is still in Print. Seen one at a London Drugs once and should have baught it though it was 54 bucks atm. Orrr The Mo-Fi version. Hello from The Lower mainland

Thanks for your professional demeanor. If you could add a lav mic that would be sweet.

So how do these compare to the original 1985 pressing? Big difference?

Hi, Steve. I was curious about the Mofi 1/2 speed question, so I sent them an email. They responded, “Hi Greg, thanks for your email. All of our modern 45 rpm LPs are indeed mastered at half speed - anything that bears the “Gain 2” logo or “Mastered on Gain 2 Ultra Analog System” was half speed mastered from the original master tapes. There are only a few exceptions where the original source was digital, like our Run DMC reissue.” Which would seem to indicate this particular title may have been in real time due to the fact that Brothers In Arms is a digital recording. Maybe. 😬 Interesting either way.

I found the Abbey road pressing to be lacking in low end ‘oomph’ in comparison to the mo-fi. The Miles version also seems a little clinical and C.D like .

You do realise Brothers in Arms was originally mastered in digital PCM

This album was recorded and mixed all-digital for compact disc in 1985. Stop wasting your time trying to get "as close as possible" to a perfect digital copy of the album that can be found on eBay for a fiver.

My OG $10 Brothers in Arms sounds nice. May even be a Club version. Great record, even on cassette! Wait, maybe not cassette......

The 2005 remastered CD doesn't sound good to me. Seems to have distortion. The 1985 version seemed full sounding but didn't crank up to loud (doesnt play loid and clear on my stereo) The best version I found was on the 1998 sultans of swing album

I just don’t understand something - when you have a full digital recording, a 24 track digital tape machine mixed to 2 track digital do not operate anything like an analog machine. You cannot run a digital machine at half speed since it’s digital PCM and not analog. Maybe it’s me but it sounds like a lot of hype. The original CD sounded pretty darned good to me.

Nice review. A minor quibble...it's Brothers In Arms, not Brother In Arms. And it's Walk Of Life, not Walk The Line. ;-)

I got the abbey road and it wouldn't play properly so I flipped it to 45rpm lol....should have "read the instructions"

The original pressing sounds great also.

This album was the first digital recorded album by Dire Straits. It is a beautifull album plenty of diferent wonderfull songs and climates . . it is an almost perfect artistic work. But it does not have the depth, the dimensions and the spatiality of the analog recordings. You can clearly feel the difference listening to their previous albums.

I agrre with the former writer. I miss the in depth statement you make. Further, the master record is also a digital recording 16/44.1, however on tape. So both labels edit in digital. Abby Road from the start in 24/192 as far I read. The order in proces is a little different, but on the end is it the same. In technical aspect, I think Abbey is putting more effort and 45 RPM is preferable. But the goal is the end result and which you prefer in sound quality. More edgie or more smooth as you mentioned. If you have 2 sound engeneers en use exactly the same procedure, you get 2 different sounding products. So comparing is difficult and related to more aspects and personal preferences. But you are enhousiastic, so I am. Thanks Harold

The Abbey Road edition is from the original digital masters as far as I know. I think the Stan Ricker is pretty good too. As iconic as it is, BIA has some dull moments in So Far Away which goes nowhere. It’s a pretty sterile sounding album, the drummer, Omar Hakim sounds like a drum machine and I prefer Pick Withers and Terry Williams. The standout tracks are Your Latest Trick, Ride Across The River and Brothers In Arms itself. I prefer Love Over Gold, Making Movies and the Debut over BIA. The recent Abbey Road Local Hero is from the original digital master. That was recorded on a 3M digital machine. Check out On Every Street double LP which is awesome too.

The abbey road 45 rpm are terrible pressings. I already send 2 back and the 3 rd isn’t any better😢

Ya cant beat the 1985 UK first press RL mastering and a good copy still cheap

I have this album and side one song walk of life has defect in a groove and skips- why not mentioned that-I paid $85 in Canada and got record that has defect MOFI should do better than that-I am now stuck with it it is shame-

MoFi is not from analog tape, we knows...

At one point, I had both an original US 1985 LP and a 1996 Japan remastered CD., then I've decided to give the LP away. I mean, makes no sense keeping an abridged version on an inferior format. - Red

The rock and roll hall of fame is irrelevant.

God! I see disgust in your face when you handle the abbey road version and when you talk about "abbey studios" and I think it is personal and there are some roots behind it.And you are not being subjective.%80 of the video is about mofi and the rest is disgust as far as I see, sorry..

Quite disappointing that you even got the title of this classic album right. And not just once.