Interesting. Prompted by this thread I just set up a playlist with smart replaygain active to level the volume playing field and did some back to back listening of Mothership tracks against the equivalent Remasters (1990 6 CD version) tracks. The differences are actually quite subtle. Very slightly more pronounced bass and reverb sound is slightly different on Mothership. However, I'm not sure I could DBT them...
Of course, without Replaygain, Mothership wins given the 5db boost (without any flat-top clipping or heavy compression by the way - the 1990 remasters were quite conservative in their levels so it was clearly quite easy for Page to up the power levels without resorting to volume-war hard limiting or agressive compression). It sounds to me like something along the lines of a TC Finaliser was used to remaster the Mothership version. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62229 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
