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What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report

I enjoy vinyl and digital (lately, with recent changes, vinyl actually sounds better than digital to me), BUT given what seems an overall preference for analog/vinyl on A'gon, I'm curious what the non-vinyl "1/2" is listening to. I tried to see if this was a previously posted question. Did not seem so.

This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".

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georgehifi

Elton's debut and all of the 70's discs are must-own !
Yes, original pressings are the best.

Happy Listening!
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@jafant 
Thanks for the Lee Morgan suggestion.  

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Not a huge EJ fan either, but Madman is a favorite album: the title track, exceptional and powerful 50 years later; the lesser known "All The Nasties" with that crescendo-ing outro has some real magic.    
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"All The Nasties" with that crescendo-ing outro has some real magic.
"All The Nasties" brilliant!!!!!!!

Called being uncompressed back then, when there were no iphones/tablets/earbuds/walkmans etc etc to blow up and the earphones when the big crescendos/transients came along. Now they have to compress otherwise they would blow those teeny speakers/earbuds, if turned up during the quiter intros/passages.

So they have to compress it these days, to stop all that destruction, and as a bonus for them less space is used when they stream, so less space less streaming costs to them
Like this unfortunate compressed junk. Good also in cars in heavy city traffic, jackhammers etc.
https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/103194
https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/182565

Here’s something good to look at EJ early uncompressed
https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/year/1?artist=elton+john
Compared it to most of the later stuff
https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/year/3?artist=elton+john (something happened though between 2017 to 2019) they went back to uncompressed????? Which is weird, someone said something to someone??



Cheers George


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Look at the compression difference with your fav "All The Nasties"
track8 2004 SACD version
https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/52257
Or 1996 track8 again downloaded
https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/110436

Then the track8 1985 nearly 20 years earlier uncompressed version
https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/186376

Cheers George


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