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800 Club - QQ All-Star
If this is the same "mastering" as the SACD box set, agreed!
Some of the most extreme lo-fi shrill volume war sound you can find. Over the top insulting to the music.
DR values?
I can make the meter hit any number you want to see at any volume level. Just like all the commercials used to. LUFS is more telling. But you also don't really need a meter to notice the shrill stepped on badness of the volume war hash. Trust your ears. And don't punish them with this stuff!
The Japanese SACD pressings of Yes albums are all pretty horrific. So bad that I listened to a couple tracks and said, in the dumps with this.
I think if I wanted to rebuild my Yes collection other than the SW’s I would purchase a 24/96 vinyl rip. There is at least one site I know of.
Yes it seems to be a re-pressing of the "High Vibration" Japanese SACD box, which contain horribly shrill and compressed mastering for the Yes albums...