When this was first released on CD the sound quality was horrible. It was fuzzy, like it was taken from an LP with lint on the needle.This is not my favorite Dire Straits album. But, if you must get it, be sure you get the remastered version.When many CD's were released in the mid eighties, the sound quality was horrible. That is why there were vinyl snobs who thought LP's were a much better technology (in spite of the hiss, and pops). That is also why you see so many "Remastered" CD's today.It is interesting that the Dire Straits would release such crappy sounding CD's when they were the vanguard of the digital recording movement with wonderfully sounding Brothers in Arms.