MODE

I had only one DM disc prior to getting this.I figured it’d be a great way to get the whole catalog.Love the design, and the black theme.I read a lot of reviews with people saying they’re upset because it is too simplistic, not worth the money. For $130 it is more than a good deal.

The media could not be loaded. I am very happy with this set. Chances are you already know and love the music if you’re willing to spend the money, so I’ll just say that the presentation is fantastic, and very well made. Worth every penny!

Beautiful box set with every single album PLUS bonus tracks!

Worth every dime! Awesome on many levels!

If you're DM fan,it's best gift to yourself.

I guess many when they read the announcement for this box set were elated, but when they read the details they were deflated. Seems like every new album from Depeche Mode is then followed up by a live album or another greatest hits set.This exceptionally designed set makes me wonder what the incentive is for old fans to buy. Because, let’s be honest, this is a steep price to pay for someone who might be an introductory fan to DM, so this is clearly geared towards those who have already purchased stuff from DM many times over already, and are deeply ingrained fans with a tendency towards collection instead of necessity.There are hardly any rarities, and no word of anything being remastered (sound is great by the way). This is Sony and DM almost screwing fans over for more monies that neither party actually needs. However, since these cash-grabs seem to succeed, I do not suppose this will stop any time soon.For this price, one would expect perhaps Japanese style LP reproductions at the very least, or go for the odd early '90s revised budget line LP artwork. There are loads of unavailable on CD mixes as well as unreleased promo and rejected 12″ mixes in the vaults, so, unless someone can pick it up for the novelty, they could easily give it a pass.Surely, the complete DM lyrics together for the first time is not a genuine selling point, but it is still an interesting feat of this box.This would be a great entry point for whoever has little or no physical DM records, but for any fan or collector this boxset offers only an intriguing package for 200 GBP. Difficult to understand who should be the potential customer for this boxset, too expensive for a casual buyer, nothing interesting for a fan.It seems there is no limit to how much you can squeeze out of an artist catalogue, DM is a study case. At least repackaging has gone beyond any possible imagination, and the new artwork looks super stylish and stunning.This is one pointless box set for a longtime DM fan, but at the same time looks so desirable. For completists and die-hards only.

This is a great collection of all Depeche Mode albums and it is also really great to get all of their b-sides and non-album singles finally collected in a concise set of cds rather than spread across all the singles or only on DVD. I really like the way this set looks, with the black on black cover art for each cd and then the colored cd (which matches the color of the corresponding 12" vinyl box set, at least for those that have been released so far.) The book has a lot of great photos in addition to all the lyrics and is enjoyable to look at. The black box itself also looks good.From an audio perspective, this box offers both good and bad news. The good news is that everything sounds pretty decent, for the most part much better than earlier badly mastered sets, such as the '98 singles collection and the 2004 singles box sets 4-6. Nothing in this box is newly remastered. Speak & Spell through Exciter are the 2006/2007 remasters, which for the most sound very good, though in most cases are not the best sounding cd master available (see below for more details on that.) This also means that mastering errors from those versions are still present here, such as the missing first chord from Satellite and the brief extraneous slide guitar on Personal Jesus at about 3:21. None of these are super annoying, but it would have been nice if they had been fixed for this release. The albums Playing The Angel through Spirit are identical versions to the originally released cd for each album, which is ok but since there are better sounding versions on vinyl and/or SACD for these albums, we know that more dynamic and better sounding cd masters could in fact be released for these albums if anyone cared enough to do so. The non-album singles and b-sides on the last 4 discs are taken from various existing sources, and while better mastered versions do exist for some of these tracks, none of them sound really bad in this set. Of course I would have preferred that each album and track in this set had used the best sounding available master, or that new even better sounding masters had been created, but overall, the cds in this set sound good enough that, for the most part, you can just enjoy listening to them for what they are.In case anyone is interested, I'll offer some further album by album comparisons to other cd versions that I have. This Speak & Spell cd here sounds better than the original Sire cd but not quite as good as a late 80's Mute cd I own (the one with extra bonus tracks). Similarly the A Broken Frame cd in this box sound better than the original Sire cd but I own a 90's Mute cd from Holland that sounds noticeably better (and also has the full start of Satellite). Comparing the Construction Time Again in this box with the original Sire cd, I can't pick a clear favorite - they sound fairly different and I like them both in different ways. The Some Great Reward cd here is not as dynamic sounding as an 80's Mute cd from West Germany that I own. Similarly the Black Celebration cd in this box is not as dynamic sounding as an 80's Mute cd from West Germany I have (the one with 3 bonus tracks from the Stripped 12"). The same can be said when comparing the Music For The Masses cd in this box with the original 80's cd mastering (which as far as I know is the same for all original versions, but I'm comparing the Sire cd), but for some reason there are some parts of this album for which I do prefer the newer mastering. For both Violator and Songs Of Faith And Devotion, I feel that the original U.S. Sire cds sound better than the cd's in this box, but the the ones here still sound very good. On the other hand, for both Ultra and Exciter, the newer masterings used for the cds in this box are noticeably better than the originally released cd versions. For Playing The Angel, it is really too bad that they didn't remaster the cd to use the same mastering that is used by the SACD layer of the European SACD version of this album, which is way better sounding. Luckily, this SACD is fairly cheap to pick up in good condition, but it is annoying that you have to play it in a player that will read the SACD layer in order to get the better sounding version. It would be really great of they would just create a standard cd that used that more dynamic mastering.

Todo perfecto.

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