Someone was extremely rude and confrontational in one of the threads. Mr. Diament had had enough. That was entirely our loss.
Actually EricCuda is correct about the added part in Bone on Barry's master, I just checked the original RL vinyl version of the song and it doesn't have that audio anomaly at all nor do any of the other CD versions that I've heard (and excluding Barry's mastering I have 5 different CD versions of the song right in front of me to compare so this is an issue exclusive to Barry's mastering), if I could take a guess as to what happened I'd say it was a simple glitch in the system during the initial transfer and Barry either didn't know about the audio glitch until after the fact or he did know but didn't have enough time to fix it before having to send it to the pressing plants.
If that's the case then I'm positive you have BD mastered CD, have you done an EAC rip and checked the peak levels yet? If all of the peak levels are 87.0% (except for Shook me all night long which is 89.1%) then it's a safe bet it's a Barry CD.
Well, I was at an antique shop today and I went through their cd's, and I found a Back In Black disc for $ 2 dollars, mint condition: Spine: 16018-2; Europe 050 735 No Barcode, Mfg for BMG D 113772 Matrix 16018-2 SRC=08 Per Exact Audio Copy: Track 1 Peak level 87.0 % Copy OK Track 2 Peak level 87.0 % Copy OK Track 3 Peak level 87.0 % Copy OK Track 4 Peak level 87.0 % Copy OK Track 5 Peak level 87.0 % Copy OK Track 6 Peak level 87.0 % Copy OK Track 7 Peak level 89.1 % Copy OK Track 8 Peak level 87.0 % Copy OK Track 9 Peak level 87.0 % Copy OK Track 10 Peak level 87.0 % Copy OK Jeez, what a SCORE!!!
I have a few and they all sound the same expect (Albert CD )431046) , This ones sounds brighter then the other early pressings . Is this what anyone else is hearing ?
Anyone can tell me, which one is Diament‘s mastering. I have two Atlantics with the letters of the band and title completely filled with white. And one Atlantic with the band name in outline 16018-2 113772D made in USA by WEA (no barcode) A2 16018 distributed by Columbia House (I think that‘s the canadian pressing) 16018-2 7567-81472-2 German
Your best bet is to listen to track 4 "Givin The Dog a Bone" on each CD and see if there's a "plop" sound at the very start of the song, if there's a "plop" at the start of track 4 then it's an almost sure bet that it's a Barry CD as his CD mastering to the best of my knowledge is the only one to have this particular anomaly, hope this helps.
The glitch on Bone does annoy me now! So I turn to either of the excellent Albert masterings to avoid it - or one of the PBTH** vinyl rips
I have the original ATCO CD of Highway to Hell, not sure if Diament or not but it's terribly unpolished. Immediately the opening riff of the title track sounds really crackly. It sounds decent enough otherwise but that to me just makes it unlistenable. I also have an old CD of Back in Black that does sound pretty good from what I remember, perhaps it's also a Diament.
Can someone identify which is the 1st US press ever from this 3: Matrix / Runout: 16018-2-1T 11 Matrix / Runout: DIDM-2583 21A1 3 16018-2 SRC-01 Matrix / Runout: 16018-2-V4E11 all have the Barry mastering? the SRC is better? due this comment: AC/DC Back In Black Diament CD
All have the Barry Stenway. Two above look to be Japan manufactures, so the Specialty would be first US make. I do have that odd ball DADC using the Specialty SRC-01 Glass.
thanks, Japan? it seems the 3 discs was made in USA, see: AC/DC - Back In Black AC/DC - Back In Black AC/DC - Back In Black
Right, the third is a JVC Japan, second one US JVC. SRC US began in 1986. US JVC being the later one. I don't think they started till 87. So it's going to be a toss-up between the DADC manufactured Specialty Glass and Japan JVC for US. Who knows. Could of been simultaneous as this is a pretty big title.
Agree... always thought it was a smooth sounding version. I have the Atco too... thinking it was a mid-90s remaster... haven't listened to it since I tracked down the Diament Atlantic.
I guess mine is not the Diament mastering: 7567-81472-2 YS CA 835 Disc: 16018-2; Made in Germany Matrix: 756781472-2 RSA AC/DC - Back In Black Code: X Lossless Decoder version 20201123 (153.0) XLD extraction logfile from 2020-12-20 10:59:24 +0100 AC/DC / Back in Black Used drive : HL-DT-ST BD-RE BP55EB40 (revision 1.00) Media type : Pressed CD Ripper mode : Burst Disable audio cache : NO Make use of C2 pointers : NO Read offset correction : 6 Max retry count : 20 Gap status : Analyzed, Appended TOC of the extracted CD Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector --------------------------------------------------------- 1 | 00:00:00 | 05:13:00 | 0 | 23474 2 | 05:13:00 | 05:20:20 | 23475 | 47494 3 | 10:33:20 | 03:35:47 | 47495 | 63666 4 | 14:08:67 | 03:32:20 | 63667 | 79586 5 | 17:41:12 | 04:15:18 | 79587 | 98729 6 | 21:56:30 | 04:15:67 | 98730 | 117921 7 | 26:12:22 | 03:30:23 | 117922 | 133694 8 | 29:42:45 | 03:59:00 | 133695 | 151619 9 | 33:41:45 | 04:05:70 | 151620 | 170064 10 | 37:47:40 | 04:14:22 | 170065 | 189136 List of alternate offset correction values # | Absolute | Relative | Confidence ------------------------------------------ 1 | 1603 | 1597 | 82 2 | 1573 | 1567 | 78 3 | 1579 | 1573 | 62 4 | -1858 | -1864 | 2 AccurateRip Summary (DiscID: 001068c1-00815222-7c09d90a) Track 01 : OK (v1+v2, confidence 211/292) Track 02 : OK (v1+v2, confidence 214/296) Track 03 : OK (v1+v2, confidence 214/296) Track 04 : OK (v1+v2, confidence 218/302) Track 05 : OK (v1+v2, confidence 212/294) Track 06 : OK (v1+v2, confidence 211/283) Track 07 : OK (v1+v2, confidence 209/275) Track 08 : OK (v1+v2, confidence 207/285) Track 09 : OK (v1+v2, confidence 207/287) Track 10 : OK (v1+v2, confidence 206/284) ->All tracks accurately ripped. All Tracks Album gain : -4.63 dB Peak : 0.999969 Track 01 Filename : 1986 - Back in Black/01 - Hells Bells.flac Pre-gap length : 00:02:00 Track gain : -4.20 dB Peak : 0.904999 CRC32 hash : BADEB24D CRC32 hash (skip zero) : 11275682 AccurateRip v1 signature : 085FEFA3 AccurateRip v2 signature : 6ECD6DEB ->Accurately ripped (v1+v2, confidence 97+114/292) Track 02 Filename : 1986 - Back in Black/02 - Shoot to Thrill.flac Pre-gap length : 00:01:13 Track gain : -4.26 dB Peak : 0.977448 CRC32 hash : CC31571B CRC32 hash (skip zero) : 7CADEB75 AccurateRip v1 signature : 5DE43FC9 AccurateRip v2 signature : 8D25FC54 ->Accurately ripped (v1+v2, confidence 98+116/296) Track 03 Filename : 1986 - Back in Black/03 - What Do You Do for Money Honey.flac Pre-gap length : 00:02:28 Track gain : -5.45 dB Peak : 0.999969 CRC32 hash : 68B220F9 CRC32 hash (skip zero) : AFB1E87D AccurateRip v1 signature : 8D17EF19 AccurateRip v2 signature : 00A66354 ->Accurately ripped (v1+v2, confidence 97+117/296) Track 04 Filename : 1986 - Back in Black/04 - Given the Dog a Bone.flac Pre-gap length : 00:00:45 Track gain : -4.55 dB Peak : 0.994537 CRC32 hash : 914ACF04 CRC32 hash (skip zero) : C46F441F AccurateRip v1 signature : B283C0BB AccurateRip v2 signature : 2348E16C ->Accurately ripped (v1+v2, confidence 99+119/302) Track 05 Filename : 1986 - Back in Black/05 - Let Me Put My Love Into You.flac Pre-gap length : 00:01:40 Track gain : -4.29 dB Peak : 0.848663 CRC32 hash : CB8EF63F CRC32 hash (skip zero) : CEEB196D AccurateRip v1 signature : FF60E7EB AccurateRip v2 signature : 606831F8 ->Accurately ripped (v1+v2, confidence 95+117/294) Track 06 Filename : 1986 - Back in Black/06 - Back in Black.flac Pre-gap length : 00:02:05 Track gain : -4.46 dB Peak : 0.989288 CRC32 hash : 1BAEC3BA CRC32 hash (skip zero) : FA0440A2 AccurateRip v1 signature : 4CD6016B AccurateRip v2 signature : 1B9C567C ->Accurately ripped (v1+v2, confidence 96+115/283) Track 07 Filename : 1986 - Back in Black/07 - You Shook Me All Night Long.flac Pre-gap length : 00:02:32 Track gain : -4.50 dB Peak : 0.958008 CRC32 hash : 228C8553 CRC32 hash (skip zero) : 42DCC5D6 AccurateRip v1 signature : 20C9427D AccurateRip v2 signature : 159B92C7 ->Accurately ripped (v1+v2, confidence 93+116/275) Track 08 Filename : 1986 - Back in Black/08 - Have a Drink on Me.flac Pre-gap length : 00:00:73 Track gain : -5.72 dB Peak : 0.999969 CRC32 hash : AE66E77A CRC32 hash (skip zero) : 725B2E40 AccurateRip v1 signature : 846AFC44 AccurateRip v2 signature : 59FB5641 ->Accurately ripped (v1+v2, confidence 92+115/285) Track 09 Filename : 1986 - Back in Black/09 - Shake a Leg.flac Pre-gap length : 00:01:18 Track gain : -5.70 dB Peak : 0.917480 CRC32 hash : C69EDEA5 CRC32 hash (skip zero) : 6A82CB67 AccurateRip v1 signature : 5CC2BD85 AccurateRip v2 signature : 61BF6533 ->Accurately ripped (v1+v2, confidence 92+115/287) Track 10 Filename : 1986 - Back in Black/10 - Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution.flac Pre-gap length : 00:01:65 Track gain : -2.52 dB Peak : 0.889313 CRC32 hash : F77E3696 CRC32 hash (skip zero) : 79454AD2 AccurateRip v1 signature : 9CE1A34C AccurateRip v2 signature : 2C80A831 ->Accurately ripped (v1+v2, confidence 93+113/284) End of status report
What are the peak levels for the tracks? For Barry's master all of the peak levels should be 87.0% exact except for YSMANL which should be 89.1%, if your disc meets this specific criteria then you have a Barry master, another way to know is if it has a weird "plop" sound at the beginning of GTDAB if it has that plop sound then it's definitely a Barry CD as no other CD mastering has this error (I actually made a fixed version of Barry's GTDAB a while back, I'll probably redo it just in case I missed something the first go around).