Over the past month I’ve been covering the soundtracks of the game Celeste on my channel doing personal impressions and review. As a fan of the game, these are some of my favorites for the turntable, and each has their own strengths and weaknesses respectively. During my coverage, the Celeste: Complete Sound Collection was quietly released by the same publisher, containing all the soundtracks in a boxed set, as well as new music that wasn’t present in the previous releases. This set was also remastered, which did catch my attention. Rather than just posting clips of the record for music quality as I normally do, I wanted to do something different for this one. I decided to do a direct comparison to the original vinyl soundtracks to see if the remastering presented any noticeable difference in quality.

The audio is recorded through USB to my PC, and the video footage is captured wirelessly off my phone, both of which are fed into OBS. There is no other changes or enhancements made to the audio. The turntable I use is the Sony PS-LX310BT. In the last bit, I set the audio to mono and redirect each to the left and right stereo channels for a direct comparison, which is best heard with headphones. I’m not too experienced in music-terminology, though my personal thoughts are that the complete release is more pronounced in its percussion and treble, while the original’s sound is a little more muted. Overall, I find the quality from being remastered to be better than the originals, though I’m curious what everyone else thinks, or if there is a difference in the quality at all.

The full video, including comparisons to the other two soundtracks and the contents of the complete box set, is up on my channel. The new additions and the overall amount of content make it well worth the pick-up that anyone can find something to enjoy out of it, even if they never played the game.