The sound of Entreat Plus has nothing to do with digital vs analog or anything like that. It is just piss-poor mixing and mastering. Period. The original Entreat was mixed to be wide open and airy... there was lots of space between the instruments, and even each individual drum. You could easily identify any sound of any single instrument at any point in any song. The new mix is completely devoid of this. All of the sound is almost dead center in the mix... it's almost completely mono and it's missing any sense of dynamic range.

I believe that the packaging stated something to the effect of "Mixed @ Home by R. Smith". Well, there is no doubt of this at all, it sounds exactly like something that was created in the bedroom studio of a beginner recordist.... or by somebody with ears blasted to hell by over 30 years of performing loud rock music.