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For the price, This is a nice recording, The Drums are excellent, Hendrix sounds in real good form. It is a very good quality recording. Hendrix really gets some great tones here, it is a very well mastered CD also. I think that it is well worth releasing. As much stuff as The Grateful Dead release, This very well worth the release, considering how popular this man was. This is the type of recording that a guitarist or a guitarist fan would really like. Yeh, it's a shame with all of the different versions of it, but still, it is what it is.

This is mostly a demo. This album is definitely for fans only. As Rolling Stone pointed out,: "probably not" in response to whether this stuff represents Jimi's final vision. I mean, let's face it. Jim's magic was as much due to his creativity in the studio at the mixing board as it was due to his playing. I'm not saying these tracks are bad. I'm just saying they are "unfinished." It doesn't make Jimi any less (or more) a genius . I'm just saying it's unfinished, period.

Although I was looking forward to this release, there's nothing really outstanding here. I was expecting the Valleys of Neptune track to be an epic stretched out 15 minute tune along the lines of "1983" from Electric Ladyland, but it ends before it starts. I do like the more tighter groove Hendrix was moving towards with Billy Cox before his untimely passing. It's more of a Rock & Soul sound that's similar to the live new years CD he made. The remake of Stone Free is tight. Bleeding Heart is a jam, but the extended Red House fades out before the last verse. All & all, it's still better than any major release by today's current artists.

Got it in my local Target store in Frisco, Texas today (March 9th) and they also have a deal that when buying any two Jimi cd's you get a free $5 gift card and I should mention they had all his cd's on sale for $9.98, incredible good deal for awesome music I would have purchased regardless a good deal or not.

I agree that this cannot be given five stars, considering what he released during his lifetime; but it is far better than anything else coming out right now. This man was a genuine musical genius. Even his "outtakes" deserve serious recognition. The production of this CD is very good. If you're a fan of Hendrix or blues influenced rock music, this is a must have.

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Well, Being the Hendrix fanatic I am I jumped on the whole lot...big mistake, the DVDs are cool, but short (about 20 min each). Unless you have do not have these CDs already, or you must have the DVDs, skip it. These are the SAME remasters from before. As another person pointed out, the track times are the same and when I ripped them into ITunes, it recognized them as the 1997 editions. I feel like I just wasted $40 I should have waited for reviews!

This is not so much a review as my take on these new treasures. I have never been a super dedicated Jimi Hendrix Experience historian or fan, but really like many tracks. ARE YOU EXPERIENCED delivers lots of my favorite all-time tracks (Hey Joe, The Wind Cries Mary, Remember, Red House). I am also not an engineer, musician, nor producer. I play my music on vintage solid state equipment from 1968-1975, and speakers from the same era. I seldom use computer for playing music except for convenience. Music truly moves my soul, and has for 50-some years. This new treatment of a 43 year old recording is the finest I've heard so far. The sound is uncompressed. The vocals have been treated to sound brand new. Most hiss has been removed without dulling the high end. The instruments have been given more definition. The bass has more punch without boominess. There are sonics attributed to Jimi's guitar that I haven't picked up on earlier editions. I liked the Experience Hendrix editions, btw. I still do think they sound great as well. This edition of EXPERIENCED sounds much improved to my ears. On THE WIND CRIES MARY, (my favorite Jimi track and top-5 fave all-time),I can follow each instrument individually if I choose. I can hear individual drum hits in the right channel. The drum performance becomes so integral, and that is missing on earlier treatments. The bass is fatter. Jimi's vocals sound as if he is alive, and singing in my left ear. During the strums at the beginning, I can make out the individual strings being struck. HEY JOE, my second favorite Jimi track, brings up the backing vocals a little, and adds a nice touch. Just like my discussion of MARY above, the individual instruments are easily followed, and the sonic dynamics much improved. I am glad I invested in this release. It's fun for an over-50 year old to get excited over new music releases, like The Beatles remasters last Fall. Ps: RED HOUSE is playing again. WOW!!!!

The majority of all my Amazon reviews deal with mastering, and I'm sticking to that here. There are better informed Hendrix archivists out there that I will defer judging/reviewing the DVD content to. The last JH catalog remastering was performed in 1997 after the courts returned the rights to the Hendrix family. I compared this 2010 edition to the Japan mini-sleeve from several years ago (which has the same 1997 worldwide "Are You Experienced" remaster, BTW). Although I have referred to my A/B set-up in previous Amazon reviews, I should reiterate: My comparisons are made on two Sony XA7 transports wired into a Camelot Uther DAC via matched-length Acoustic Zen coax cables and monitored thru Sennheiser 590's. This configuration allows me to compare two CD's playing simultaneously, and instantly switch back and forth between them, rather than having to physically change out discs in one transport. If there's a better way to perform an A/B listening test, I haven't found it. So, as to this new release? If you're considering purchasing this edition with the expectation of obtaining improved remastering, save your money: This is the same 1997 remaster, just in a new, spiffied-up package. The audio and track times are exactly the same, and both freedb and iTunes recognize the 2010 CD as the '97. Yes, there are revamped booklets and a short-duration DVD in each set, but does that really justify re-purchasing this album, or the entire catalog, all over again? At the Amazon street-date sale price of $9, at least these sets aren't sold at some egregious premium for the additional content. However, the cleverly-worded marketing text is definitely hawking "remastering", when in actuality, there's nothing new here, audio-wise, at all. You might, therefore, want to wait for reviews of each DVD before proceding with that expense. I pre-ordered the entire set (sans Hits), but now I won't open Axis, Ladyland or Rising Sun until I read something else of value contained for the money I've spent. I'm also considering returning them to Amazon for a refund. I believe all of the Neptune material has previously been released on Michael Jefferies estate (and other) boots, but I will be popping the shrink to A/B that mastering against the matching tracks I already own.

OK, like most Hendrix fanatics I have bought just about every iteration of this classic offering as well as everything else Hendrix has put out and approached this release with a fair amount of skepticism. I'll admit I bought it mainly out of curiosity to see what was on the DVD since the price was ridiculously cheap. Well, I have just listened to just the first track, the incomparable Purple Haze, and my jaw almost hit the floor. Believe me, I have heard this tune countless times and although it is a favorite, it is one of those songs that I have heard so much that my mind sort of goes on autopilot when I hear it and I kind of tune it out....but this is a true revelation and I don't use that word often. I don't know what Eddie Kramer did differently this time (I'm not an engineer) but not only has he remastered it, to my ears it sounds remixed as well. I know there are many purists who view tampering with an original work of art as blasphemy, but in this case it works. I heard things I have NEVER heard before - Mitch Mitchell's drums have an immediacy that cracks like gunshots going off, Jimi's vocals are crystal clear, and Noel's bass is rock solid and clearly defined as never before. There is absolutely no trace whatsoever of the tape hiss that was on previous releases as a result of all the overdubbing that was done when this went down in '66/67 (according to the studio invoice from De Lane Lea Studios included in the great booklet crammed with unseen before photos and an essay by Dave Marsh). There was always kind of a distant feel to this recording which was understandable given that it was recorded under somewhat primitive conditions but now it sounds almost recent, with the exception of the panning of Jimi's vocals in the right channel, most likely due to the limitations of the number of tracks that they had to work with. I don't want to get too technical because I'm not qualified and I'm sure others more knowledgable will correct my errors. All I know is that THIS SOUNDS KILLER. This is the way Jimi was always meant to sound.....man, if the rest of this disc (remember, I am writing this after hearing only the FIRST TRACK) and Axis Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland, and First Rays Of the New Rising Sun sound as dramatically upgraded as this, Hendrix's fan's prayers have been answered. BTW, I watched a little of the DVD and it is also well done - Eddie Kramer demonstrates how he mixed the original LP by isolating certain tracks, similar to what Tom Dowd did with Layla on his fantastic DVD, and there are interviews with Chas Chandler, Mitch Mitchell (R.I.P. Mitch) and Noel Redding (R.I.P Noel too) that I have not seen before and they really enhance the viewing experience. All in all, this seems to be the definitive treatment of AYE and the first truly worthy of Jimi's legacy. I really hope I'm not overreacting and mislead anybody but if you're a fan you're going to buy this anyway. At this price you can't go wrong and the addition of the DVD makes it a can't miss. LONG LIVE JIMI HENDRIX.