Has anyone here purchased the new box set? I was curious to hear how the bonus disk of 1977-05-12 is as the soundboard does not circulate. I own sb's of the other three shows that I am very satisfied with the quality of, Is the quality of these shows on the box set a major step up? I believe my copies are from archive.org
It's pretty decent sound. I guess the slight degree better than previous sources is hard to notice unless your doing side by side comparisons. Those old Betty's just sound so good they don't need much help IMO. I don't know if the tracks from the Chicago show are worth buying the whole thing for. That's the first disc I listened to and maybe I just wasn't in the right mood but I wasn't too impressed. Solid '77 yes, but nothing mind blowing. There were Jerry mic issues at the begining of 1/2 Step and he was barely audible for the first few lines. I gues it's hard to WOW us, since most of us have all these shows in decent quality already. Personally, I'd almost rather see them forgoe these box sets for a while and put together some killer DVD/video releases. We need more Video!
I guess if they're gonna do more box sets, I'd like to see another Europe '72 release of like 10-12 cd's. There's still shit loads of great Dead to be mined there.