I'm obviously in that minority as well, considering that OTSOL is still probably my favorite PT release. I don't mind technical and so-called 'fake' instruments. It is what it is meant to be. I really couldn't give a shit less that certain products of the album are of...a digital body faking to be real. The original release, to me, is superior in every way. REAL DRUMS! I don't give a shit...you like what you like. I don't fault anyone for liking the remaster more because quite frankly that's what it was created for; the people that care more about actual instruments than the sound itself and/or liking that sound more. I myself like the sound of the machine and I really couldn't give a fuck less what anyone else's opinion is of it.
It means fuck all to me that someone can play the exact same track that a machine does, but the fact that the sound itself has changed is the big difference to me. I heard the original first, and I will logically identify with that sound more than the remaster. Those that heard the remaster first will more than likely think it sounds 'better' or 'superior' to the original. Fucking great. It's still a useless little opinion; meaningful only to yourself. There's no better or worse in any case, especially in this one. It's so amazing that people will still debate over something SO fucking introverted. It's just sound...what sounds better to you might sound like shit to another. It's no different than anything else but because it's AN ACTUAL INSTRUMENT...for some reason that makes a difference to most.
Either way...they're both great, but I prefer the original, as I said, because I identify with it more, because I heard that one first and while I've heard the remaster, I still think that that original sounds better, to my own ear vaginas. Fuck anyone else's opinion that argues that point. Wooty. Fucking. Patooty. God damn humans... always arguing...always debating... over the most useless shit possible. Instead of simply accepting. Accept that another person thinks that one sound is better to THEMSELVES. Not that I'm arguing this point with anyone in particular HERE... but for the most part...the human populace...popupolice....