Can anything be down about this? There must be an agenda!

jaybe
The Dynamic Range Database web page is your friend

Truer words so far have not been spoken on this thread. These words are the only ones need to be listened to here.

In digital, today’s re-masters are mostly just louder, as well as being over compressed. And those, sadly are usually the only ones that are streamed or downloaded.

1st release CD’s are usually the most uncompressed. And the vinyl (but channel separation sucks big time).

Just bung in the artist up the top and the album, and look for the most green, then click on it to find the cat no. and pick up a used CD on eBay for $5
http://dr.loudness-war.info/

Here's a classic as an example Fleetwood Mac Rumors
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=fleetwood+mac&album=Rumours

Cheers George

Don't bother with Amazon. Use Discogs.

Ebay and Half price books are you friend, just make sure you check the database first. I also troll the groups on twitter when they release a new version that is compressed as hell. Maybe if more people bitched something would be done. Maybe we can get Steven Wilson to do all remasters. He is the exception to the rule.

My bad. What I meant to say was the audio frequencies of vinyl recordings are best captured at 16 bit/48 kHz.