[Camiel]

Originally Posted by bryantm3

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the music has been boosted to the maximum volume on the CDs, and then compressed so that they fit to the limit. if you look at the wave-forms close up, those waves go all the way from the bottom to the top in loudness- and the variation and subtleness in the genesis songs that we've grown to love are ruined, not because of the new producer, but because of the mastering engineer.

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my point in all of this, is that i hope when underworld masters their new album, they don't follow into this new trend of loud and over-compressed music. but since underworld has never followed the main-stream i'm sure they'll consider this- i thought genesis would be more aware to things like this, but apparently, when they were doing the mixes with the producer, they heard the 'untreated' versions only, and don't know anything or haven't acknowledged anything about the mastering on these new editions. i just hope underworld won't make the same mistake.

I hate this. Just check out the CD of Playing the angel by Depeche Mode. It has the same flaws. The SACD/5.1 version doesn't however.