Best Sounding Original CD's

Excellent, I have the four box sets of the singles. A must have for DM fan.

 

Yes, the Depeche Mode albums of the 90's sound great. World In My Eyes and Policy Of Truth from Violator are 2 of my demo tracks for years now.

 

I must add that I'm referring to the CD maxi versions of these tracks. Policy Of Truth (7" Version) is DR13 on the CD maxi, while on Violator (1990) it's DR12. And on The Singles 86>98 it's only DR7. Awful. The same for World In My Eyes: DR12, DR11 and DR7 respectively.

 

Do you refer to the original 1985 release? The 1998 release, The Singles 81>85 is compressed to hell.

 

May i add Type O Negative - Slow, Deep and Hard? DR14

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/21388

You don't even need to go for the original, i have 2001 re-issue which uses the same master.

And Paradise Lost - Gothic DR13

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/41364

Again i have a re-issue with the original master.

 

Same for the later Box Set singles, shame

 

Yeah Negative thank God has never been remastered, no need they all sound great

 

Yes, the original 80s CD

 

I have the 2004 boxed singles 1, 2, 3,, not sure what you guys are talking about with the sound . To my ears they sound great.
As for the 4th box, I bought the individual maxi singles for that early 90's period.

 

Deep Purple Singles A's B's 1993 UK import
DR Values

11 10 13 11 08 11 11 12 13 11 11 11 11 13 13 10 11 13 13 14
20 great sounding songs.

 

I never heard the boxed singles release and I can't find any info on it. So maybe they're fine. The Singles 81>85 and The Singles 86>98 release sound okay when casually listened to in isolation. But compare them to the original CD release and you'll here they're compressed: everything is loud all the time and the music is squashed in your face. The originals have more dynamics, more air around the various instruments, more soundstage and are more relaxed to listen to. The difference is quite obvious.

 

Box 123 are fine 456 are remastered
Walking In My Shoes-Grungy Gonads Box- DR5
Walking In My Shoes-Grungy Gonads US Single DR-11

 

I know this is an old post, and this might have been mentioned before, but the 1st edition of their earlier album 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 sounds excellent as well.

Some more early cd editions from Aussie/Kiwi groups that sound good to me:
Split Enz - Conflicting Emotions
INXS - Listen Like Thieves
Men At Work - Business as Usual (Cargo as well)
all Holland/Germany issues.

 

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - S/T debut album. An amazing sounding disc.

 

Yes, this is good, it's one of my first Deep Purple cd.

 

actually they did in 2009 but i haven't heard both of em.

Slow DR8: http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/36465

Bloody DR8: http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/36467

Doesn't seem be too bad but you are right, there's no need.

 

No kidding, never new those titles got it, thanks for the info

 

The Doors - L.A. Woman, amazing sound.

 

Is this the original albums box set you were talking about?



I got mine last year. Here's the DR readings:

Code:

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Analyzed folder: /Alice Cooper/Love It To Death (2012 RE)
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DR        Peak        RMS        Filename
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DR11        -2.30 dB     -15.31 dB     01 - Caught In A Dream.wav
DR12        -2.84 dB     -16.62 dB     02 - I'm Eighteen.wav
DR12        -0.87 dB     -14.53 dB     03 - Long Way To Go.wav
DR11        -0.44 dB     -15.94 dB     04 - Black Juju.wav
DR12        -1.94 dB     -16.35 dB     05 - Is It My Body.wav
DR13        -1.32 dB     -16.02 dB     06 - Hallowed Be My Name.wav
DR10        -2.56 dB     -15.23 dB     07 - Second Coming.wav
DR11        -1.69 dB     -16.49 dB     08 - Ballad Of Dwight Fry.wav
DR10        -2.56 dB     -15.47 dB     09 - Sun Arise.wav
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Number of files:    9
Official DR value:    DR11

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It's the 1986 CDs that have the bonus tracks.

 

How come no talks about our host Steve's job he did on the first three Alice Cooper cd's??? I really want to hear what you think of those.
All the early Alice Cooper cd's stink on Warner Brothers label. I can't imagine anything from the 80's sounding better ether.

 

Toto and Tom Waits still have the original 80s masterings in print and that's a good thing. The original Little Feat CDs sound very good as well.

 

You never heard the box singles made in the states from 2004, ok that explains everything. Tks

 

Yes...that box above was what I was referring to. I don't know how it happened but the Love it to Death in my box was an avg. DR of 7. When I remember...I'll copy down the full DR tallies when I get to my external HD. I don't have home internet. The above ratings you posted look more like my 80s mastering of that title.

Matter of fact...here's the DR on my oldest Love it to Death

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/23746

Same mastering on the 'triple box set',

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/63357

This looks more like the LiTD from the 5 boxset I had, and it's the Japanese SHM release, 7's and 8's.

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/44028

 

Very interesting. I sure was lucky then.
Thanks for confirming!

 

You forgot Hot Rocks 2 which was good as well.
You do need the London S/T (a/k/a "England's Newest Hitmakers") for the long 4:05 version of "Tell Me"