Does your ID of it as a remaster is based on the peak levels? The packaging looks very cheap to me, like many other Canadian early-80's pressings... and no words about any remastering anywhere on the sleeve... Pics of the booklet and the back here... (and if you are right, I'll start my quest for the AM+...)
I have an early A&M of Ghost In The Machine. Cat #: CD 3730 DIDX 2 Matrix: DIDX 2 101A1 Plastic hub: Made in USA Digital Audio Disc Corp Has anyone noticed that the vocals on "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" are, on this disc, very odd? They seem to be pushed much further back. Or is this the way it sounds on all versions? Don't remember my vinyl copy sounding like that at all.
The advice I give everyone is to look for the discs issued BEFORE 'Message In A Box' as they seem the least dickered-with.
All versions of Synchronicity have "Murder by Numbers" except for the first pressing of the first Japanese issue with catalog number 38XB-2. This is the disc with a partial black coating. The second pressing with catalog number 38XB-2 looks very similar to the original U.S. issue (black text and no color coating) and has "Murder by Numbers".
That looks like a later issue by virtue of the "add" logo in place of the AM+ logo. Earlier Canadian issues likely had the AM+ logo. Also, I see that one page of the booklet has the "Police badge". I first saw that logo with the release of the box set in '93. That could indicate that your disc is the '93 remaster.
I doubt it: My copy is an '80s CD-4792 issue (with the "AM+" logo on back where the "aad" would otherwise be), and the "Police badge" is present and accounted for; albeit in color. The images on both sides of the inner booklet fold, incidentally, hail from the LP inner sleeve.
I compared the Mofi Synchronicity to the Dave Collins Every Breath You Take which should match the box set. FWIW, the volume on the Mofi was 70% of the Collins CD. After matching those levels the Collins CD appears to be brighter but not to a horrible degree. We're talking about 2 db at 10 k. Not thrilled about that but hardly criminal.
The levels on my copy are identical to rick's: 1. 99.8% 2. 97.5% 3. 100.0% 4. 100.0% 5. 100.0% 6. 100.0% 7. 100.0% 8. 88.7% 9. 97.1% 10. 88.4% 11. 82.5% It's an early U.S. Denon pressing, allegedly "made from a Japan laser mastering."
No, not a typo. There are two distinct pressings with catalog number 38XB-2. The first has a partial black coating and 10 tracks, and is thus missing "Murder by Numbers". The second looks very similar to the original U.S. issue and has 11 tracks, and thus has "Murder by Numbers". Details can be found here: http://www.keithhirsch.com/two-vari...lice-synchronicity-with-catalog-number-38xb-2 I generally consider the two pressings with catalog number 38XB-2 first issues since they both have the original catalog number. Also, I suspect that the second pressing replaced the first pressing very quickly, probably in 1984, and possibly even in 1983. The D32Y disc would then be the second Japanese issue, from 1986. Certainly one could refer to the second 38XB-2 pressing as the second issue and the D32Y disc as the third. There are no hard and fast rules here.
Just how rare is that first press of Synchronicity, without "Murder By Numbers"? I really want one! Poking around eBay and the Internet in general, I could find almost no evidence of it.
I'm gonna resurrect this thread (as it were) since I was lucky enough to recently acquire a couple of these early very rare Japan-made 24k gold Police CDs. I have "Ghost" and "Zenyatta". In a preliminary "shoot-out", it seems the EAC peak levels of my gold Ghost D33Y-3404 and my early CD-3730 DIDY Ghost are quite different: D33Y-3404: Track 1 Peak level 87.0 % Track 2 Peak level 81.2 % Track 3 Peak level 83.1 % Track 4 Peak level 83.1 % Track 5 Peak level 81.2 % Track 6 Peak level 83.1 % Track 7 Peak level 83.1 % Track 8 Peak level 72.4 % Track 9 Peak level 83.3 % Track 10 Peak level 91.2 % Track 11 Peak level 83.5 % CD-3730 DIDY: Track 1 Peak level 95.3 % Track 2 Peak level 95.3 % Track 3 Peak level 95.3 % Track 4 Peak level 95.3 % Track 5 Peak level 95.3 % Track 6 Peak level 95.3 % Track 7 Peak level 95.3 % Track 8 Peak level 95.3 % Track 9 Peak level 95.3 % Track 10 Peak level 95.3 % Track 11 Peak level 95.3 % I'm a little dubious of those results seeing as the peak is the same for all tracks on the CD-3730 version (I'm using the latest EAC with AccurateRip). If someone who has the Japan-for-Japan 1st pressing could post their peaks, please do, it would be good to see if the 24k gold version is unique. -s1m0n-
I don't think that there's anything wrong with your results. The peaks are the same, because that's where they clipped off the tops. I don't have the Japanese 1st pressing of Ghosts, but I do have the D32Y (3200 Yen) A&M pressing, which I have always thought sounds amazing. I'll try to do this in the next couple of days. Those D33 gold Police pressings are rare. I saw Synchronicity the other day, but it was about $55, and I passed since I have the 38XB-2 and the MFSL.
Here are the peak levels from my WG for USA version CD-3730 (393 730-2 01 in the matrix) solid aluminum to the spindle hole smooth-sided case EAC Auslese-Logdatei vom 29. April 2008, 21:13 für CD Police / Ghost In The Machine Track 1 Spitzenpegel 100.0 % Kopie CRC 51B82459 Track 2 Spitzenpegel 100.0 % Kopie CRC EFB710B0 Track 3 Spitzenpegel 100.0 % Kopie CRC 2A60AC2C Track 4 Spitzenpegel 100.0 % Kopie CRC 88BF3014 Track 5 Spitzenpegel 100.0 % Kopie CRC 75D45C84 Track 6 Spitzenpegel 100.0 % Kopie CRC CDCFEC41 Track 7 Spitzenpegel 100.0 % Kopie CRC C335F470 Track 8 Spitzenpegel 83.1 % Kopie CRC 951588AF Track 9 Spitzenpegel 89.2 % Kopie CRC C6EFF0EC Track 10 Spitzenpegel 100.0 % Kopie CRC 7C6C6120 Track 11 Spitzenpegel 91.5 % Kopie CRC 3ADF2185
These numbers look suspiciously similar to the numbers posted earlier in the thread by fredhammersmith. Looks like they are from the 1993 remaster.
Yes, but I'm guessing the identical peak levels on every track are a common feature of the remasters.
