Customer Reviews

Who Do We Think We Are

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Wow! Another great CD that sounds far better than the original from Audio Fidelity. Steve Hoffman did another great job. If you are a fan of Deep Purple MkII, this is the way they should sound.

Deep Purple's 1973 "Who Do We Think We Are" is a fantastic album. It's been shuffled into the background behind some of those other Purple classics "Machine Head," "Fireball" and "In Rock". The great production, the hard driving polished playing and the killer songs make for one really enjoyable album. The Audio Fidelity remastering is easy on the ears, and it also includes the lyrics. The EMI re-mastering was good, but this is great!!! So now, we Deep Purple fans will have to have two copies of "Who Do We Think We Are" in our CD collection.

I've read all the reviews on this album and it seems that the big favorites are "Woman From Tokyo", "Smooth Dancer" and "Rat Bat Blue". While "Mary Long", "Our Lady" "Super Trooper" and "Place In Line" get there share of votes too. All this positive feedback proves something I've known all along, this is one great album. Now sounding better than ever.

Thanks Mr. Hoffman. Bring on the U.S. version of "Fireball" next.
Long Live DP!

Truly great version of my favorite Deep Purple album. Brings back the days of vinyl!!! All the nuances of the original recording without that filtered feeling so often found in analog to digital conversion. Highly recommended.

I'm not sure how I missed this album back in the day .... too far into Led, Floyd, Cooper, and on a very limited budget I guess. Near great album - mastered correctly - sounds really open and airy in HDCD mode. The louder you play it the better it sounds unlike the Rhino remasters - I have a Greatest Hits CD and A/B'd Woman From Tokyo - this wins hands down !!! Is it worth the xtra money - darn right !!!

Sounds a little better than the Rhino release but without the extra tracks that Rhino has.

Maybe it's just me, but I can't hear any difference between the 2002 CD and this GOLD CD. Perhaps my hearing is shot from attending too many rock concerts over the past 40 years. Both CD releases sound fantastic to me. I had both CDs encoded at 256 kbps and did a blind test with the same ipod and speakers and I honestly cannot discern any difference between the 2002 CD and 2005 Gold CD.
I paid almost twice as much for the Gold CD, and I expected to be blown away by the improved sound quality,
but no such luck...it sounds just as good as the 2002 release.