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Originally Posted by stimpee
Theres a thread on the hydrogenaudio forums that lists CDs that have been mastered overly loud and have lots of clipping. The Depeche Mode album Playing The Angel was one of those. Before Oink's demise I requested a FLAC rip from the vinyl and it sounds far better.
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interesting. i like "playing the angel" as an album, but i find the sound quality of it almost impossible to listen to at times. it definitely has an overmodulated, clipped sound. it never occurred to me that it was an artifact of the mastering process rather than a creative decision to err on the side of "grittiness."
too bad about oink. i would love to hear the vinyl version of the album to see if the clippy sound i find offensive is reduced.