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Crowded House - Crowded House - Time On Earth (180gm 24-96 Needledrop)(Eharmonica) (2007)

Track listing:
  1. Nobody Wants To 4:08
  2. Don't Stop Now 3:52
  3. She Called Up 2:53
  4. Say That Again 5:20
  5. Pour Le Monde 5:12
  6. Even A Child 3:57
  7. Heaven That I'm Making 3:55
  8. Stare Me Out 4:18
  9. A Sigh 3:15
  10. Silent House 5:50
  11. English Trees 3:42
  12. Lost Island 3:19
  13. She Walked Her Way Down 4:15
  14. Transit Lounge 4:23
  15. You Are The One To Make Me Cry 3:41
  16. People Are Like Suns 3:57

Notes

Using the neat little Dynamic Range finder (http://www.dynamicrange.de/es/es/download), the CD gets a 6, and my rip gets a 11. I will say that 11 is not so good, but that's what's on the damned record. My "Temple Of Low Men" vinyl rip came in at 15. This set is very dense and tight-lidded. Not a whole lot of dynasm allowed. And so it's a 11. Still....


FAR BETTER THAN THE CD. THROW YOUR CD AWAY.


Original notes:
I was thrilled when Crowded House reformed, thinking it was a sign that Neil had gotten over himself a bit. Their new CD was so-so I thought. Saw then live at the Orpheum here in LA. It was a lot of fun. Liked the songs and all.

But....

The cd is a bit clamped down for me. It's another one of those "let's turn it up to, not 11, but 9.99". EVERY song goes right up to the limit, which probably means that each song is OVER in real life. Well, good news: the LP is MUCH better sounding. Mastered by Bob Ludwig. Of course there are tradeoffs. Since so many of these songs have looooong fade ins/outs you will hear some surface noise. Some songs are very quiet (A Sigh) and you will, again, hear some surface noise. But I assure you, if you can live with some surface noise in the quietest parts, this LP sounds better than the CD. AND it has two extra songs (B4 and C4)! I suspect they are B-sides everywhere else but in my neck of the woods. BTW, "A Sigh" is pegged out on the CD, for no good reason.

On 180gm vinyl.



A1 - Nobody Wants To
A2 - Don't Stop Now
A3 - She Called Up
A4 - Say That Again
B1 - Pour Le Monde
B2 - Even A Child
B3 - Heaven That I'm Making
B4 - Stare Me Out
C1 - A Sigh
C2 - Silent House
C3 - English Trees
C4 - Lost Island
D1 - Walked Her Way Down
D2 - Transit Lounge
D3 - You Are The One To Make Me Cry
D4 - People Are Like Suns






LP > Rega P1 with Ortofon Super 30 > TC-750LC > E-Mu 0202 > Adobe Audition 3 (AA) @ 96kHz 32bit float > Manual click removal in AA > Click Repair set @ 20 > AA used to balance L/R, split tracks, fade in/out, and for manual click removal > RX Advanced to resample > RX Advanced to dither MBIT+ > TLH to FLAC and sector align (16bit, pad) > MP3 Tagger to edit tags.

"16bit" = 16bit at 44.1kHz
"24bit" = 24bit at 96kHz

No music was harmed in the making of this vinyl rip.











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