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It appears Universal is trying to gauge interest in domestic releases of these. Let me know if those would interest anybody and I'll pass it on. If there were domestic releases, I'd be content with those for the ones I didn't already order. Other than BBC...don't really need that again if it isn't r...

Some cross posts, with thanks to Ryan... Young Man Blues: - Same take as on The House That Track Built (and the Tommy Deluxe Edition). Runs slightly faster. - Relatively dry mix, compared to THTTB. Also, everything seems to shift to the left a bit. - Single-tracked lead vocal. This seems to be one o...

And...nothing in today's mail.

Rspaight wrote:So, I'm assuming this:

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=UICY-93748

is just the same old mastering?

I would assume it's just the DE, although I suppose it is possible that it uses the Super Deluxe mastering. Either way, I'm not going to find out.

Playing O&S right now, and my first impression (without rigorous comparison) is that it's still a bit goosed but it doesn't seem as painful as the '98 disc. "Naked Eye" is playing right now, and if there's any NR it's very minimal. Don't know if any of the fuckups from the '98 have be...

Bennett Cerf wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BKYKok9d5g

Who needs satire when you have that?

I do it digitally, and it sounds fine. The big advantage is if there are some pops in one channel you can remove those first and then combine.

One additional thing I just noticed - the peak for the disc appears to be at 3:09 in 905. On the MCA, the peak is 0 dB and there are a handful of clipped samples. On the Polydor, the peak is -0.6 dB, and while it isn't clipped (obviously, since it isn't at 0 dB), the waveform matches the MCA and is ...

Coming back to this... Dudelsack's numbers are almost exactly my numbers multiplied by 1.0718 (which equals 100/93.3), i.e. the volume increase that is needed to make the CD peak at 100% I had previously assumed the MCA was simply shifted up by 0.6dB to hit 0dB peak. However, I just noticed two thin...

Supposedly they were done relatively recently, but some folks have claimed they are "leftovers" from the earlier project. Can't say I know for certain.

Somebody really liked reverb.

I thought Xenu would be jumping on this...

Rspaight wrote:"drowning in artificial bass"

The MCA Who's Next and Quad comments are great too, although at the moment I don't have the stomach to bother searching for them.

And yet he has never acknowledged that there are actually 2 different Polydor masterings of Tommy.

The MCA issue is slightly louder. When normalized, of course, they cancel out completely. :roll: Also, to be fair, after adjusting by 0.6 dB and performing the null, there is some signal at -90.3 dB, a mix of noise (mostly) and (very faintly) the actual audio. Presumably due to quantization errors....

I finally am unpacked enough to get down to business...I compared the much-vaunted Polydor original CD of Who Are You to a Canadian MCA copy generously donated by JWB. Here's what Fang says about this: CD (original mix) comments: The Polydor (Germany) sounds wonderful. The MCA (USA) is as dull as a...

I'm content with you being cooler.