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Catcher10
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Yea, I'm fine with it as if you wanted one of the non-black versions I think you had to buy from Insideout or band site and those prices are too spendy. I have not checked to see if Greg Walker has any, but I'm good. I'm sensitive to who presses these and I am assuming it will be Optimal Media in Germany....some of the info on Discogs is not complete but the quick resale prices for the album are already dbl or more .....Essentially we are making money in our sleep!! BTW, the CD versions are reselling for $23.....
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Enchant X
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why would somebody order it on vinyl when in the mastering it's probably all digital ? for extra clicks and pops ?
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Catcher10
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I don't have clicks and pops...Not sure what you are talking about. Your CD version is low resolution at redbook 16/44 full of compression and brickwalling. Records are mastered using the 24bit hi resolution file.....Why would somebody order it on CD?
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projeKct
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The best choice is obviously to buy the 24bit-96kHz digital file then. (But for some strange reason, I love to have it on CD also, just to complete my "tangible" collection. I know it is absurd, but why not? And seriously, 16bit-44kHz is pretty high resolution to my ears anyway! So I can understand that some prefer digital file, some prefer to have a CD and some prefer to have it on vinyl. To each his own. If the label cares about these three formats, I guess it is because sales are good enough.)
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Catcher10
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I have zero beef with any version, what I don't care for is making baseless remarks about a certain format or the tireless pops and clicks comments. I have records from the 70's that still play clean and will always sound better than the 90s CD issues. The only format that comes close to records is hi-rez 24bit and DSD files, they are more expensive than records and the gear needed to make the most of them is not cheap either. Redbook 16/44 CDs don't have the realism, resolution and most importantly the soundstage that records do. Redbook limits you to 20Hz-20kHz, it cuts off hard. There is music above 20kHz that we might not hear but for sure adds to the whole musical character that your mind and body feed off, records have been pressed with frequencies over 40kHz, can't do that to a redbook CD. I buy CDs because they are dirt cheap, $2-4ea nobody wants them, so I can rip them for portable playing on planes, trains and automobiles. Your right, all 3 formats are made because people buy them, but year after year CD sales are dropping....I love that TFK always include the CD with the LP version.
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