Scorpions - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Yes, that was probably the toughest one for me to find. The bad thing is there really isn't another one that sounds good. But it's worth the money, because the ND German sounds great and can be cranked.

 

Gonna check Fly To The Rainbow CD they sell at local mall, it is brand new and dirty cheap, 5 bucks only.

 

If it's the US RCA from '88 or '89 I recommended, it's the best sounding one out there. It's the only one of the US RCA's that beat the ND German series.

 

Great. Bought them brand new last year, shrink-wrapped, with annoying sticker-seal on the verge of the jewel boxes.

 

Did they have a silver sticker on the shrink wrap that said remastered?

 

I've noticed they make replicas sometimes, even with discog you cannot tell exactly the year of (re)pressing.

 

No stickers at all, but somekind of a seal like the one pictured here

 

This is the one I have - Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow »

It says remastered but it really isn't, it's just from a better source tape and slightly eq'd. No compression. And it's ADD, not AAD.

 

No that's not what I mean.

 

They did not have a silver sticker on the shrink wrap saying remastered.

 

That's good, when I bought the 97 remasters new back then they did. Based on your waveforms, if they were remastered the amplitude of the waveforms would be taller.

 

If I buy it, gonna post some waveforms today.

 

Post the peak levels for each track using EAC or Foobar, I'll tell you if they match mine. Then you will know if it's the same mastering.

 

They sound good. Bought Taken by Force from this 50th anniv., edition, and it is a total disaster. Avoid.

 

Never done it before. You mean something like this: View image: make it real track peak »

 

What went wrong with the bonus material?
I assumed the entire Tokyo`79 show was recorded?
My Grey area cd sounds superior to the travesty officially released!!!?
Nothing absolutely Nothing can atone for this blatent failure.

The source and content is far inferior.The mastering is unacceptable.

 

I bought the following today in a mall. They are brand new.

Scorpions ‎– Lovedrive – 15$

Scorpions - Lovedrive »


Scorpions ‎– Fly To The Rainbow – 5$

Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow »


this one looks almost like the one on discog, but has different mould/mastering SID code (don’t recognize which is which), which is IFPI L553

Below I post waveforms of random tracks:

View image: Fly To The Rainbow »

View image: Lovedrive »

Later on gonna post the peak levels.

 

Peak levels for:

Scorpions - Lovedrive »

View image: Track peaks Lovedrive »

Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow »

View image: Track peaks Fly To The Rainbow »

 

Original Scorpions vinyl (or even early reissue stuff) is getting harder and harder to find - particularly here in the UK. I've been trying to pick up their RCA and earlyish Harvest back catalogue for ages with little real success. The prices for the good stuff in really nice condition are getting silly and that's a real shame as far as I am concerned. Virgin Killer and In Trance, in particular, are becoming expensive - and I'm not just talking about the first cover VK either (I'd like a copy for the production values but I don't think I could reconcile myself with owning 'that' image - what the heck were they thinking...!).

These albums were plentiful and cheap once upon a time. But not any more. Oh for an orange RCA label copy of In Trance without the usual ringwear!

The other one that escapes me totally is an original copy of Lovedrive with the printed inner sleeve. It was never released in the UK with a printed inner but was in Germany and (I think) in the US and possibly in other territories as well. I utterly need that LP - not for any 'pervy' reasons (though at least she's an adult this time...) but because it bugs the heck out of me that my UK copy is 'incomplete' (and its a Fame reissue to boot...). I note that the current reissued vinyl contains a printed inner though not the same one as in the original. And, it seems, it is compressed to death.

Sigh...

 

I cannot get over anniv. edition of Tokyo Tapes. Is the 2001 remaster any good? Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes »

I can buy it dirty cheap, like 10$.

 

It's remastered from 2001. I would avoid it. This is the one to get. Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes »

 

Avoid this one: Scorpions - Hot & Slow (Best Masters Of The 70´s) »

Bought it for In Trance tracks, but regret it; gave me mega ear fatigue.

Ordered this for the same reason: Scorpions - Best Of Scorpions ». Hope it is gonna be better.

It is hard to get In Trance these days.

 

Got this today: Scorpions ‎– Lonesome Crow. It looks like this Scorpions - Lonesome Crow » but has made in France instead of made in uk on the CD

 

No it's not. Get this set, it features the RCA Germany masterings of these three albums. Look for it elsewhere though, that Amazon price is silly
Scorpions - Original Album Classics - Amazon.com Music »

 

I am unable to view the links you posted, so......here are the peak values generated by Foobar's replay gain feature.
You can compare them to your versions.

Fly To The Rainbow (1987, RCA, 5057-2-R, USA)
Track 1 .819611
Track 2 .911957
Track 3 .899048
Track 4 .787445
Track 5 .99969
Track 6 .990509
Track 7 .831573

Lovedrive (1988, EMI, CDP 7 46733 2, UK)
Track 1 .700958
Track 2 .734070
Track 3 .783264
Track 4 .775970
Track 5 .718079
Track 6 .684631
Track 7 .756134
Track 8 .812317

Hope this helps.