Powell90

Little word of warning, iTunes cannot convert 24-bit to 24-bit lossless. It can play 24-bit but any conversion, even if it is lossless will automatically down convert to 16-bit. So those who plan on using iTunes, you might as well go for ALAC. By the way, I ACCIDENTLY bought it a few seconds after my last post here. Was only curious to see how much the discount would be and ended up buying it. I now own the 24/192 version, sits 3.20GB on my laptop it's scary. I don't even have studio monitors to project the frequency. The good news is that the tracks has no clipping. It's further proof that almost everything released on iTunes has an increase in volume. CDBaby recently extended their music to FLAC. Having compared that with my lossy iTunes version, there were either none to less noticeable clipping. Anyway, this is also the only way as of now to own the bonus tracks lossless. The bad news, it's still over compressed. It's not to say I don't enjoy them but everything that was fresh before is now drowned to dry loudness. Can't explain it.

Darn it you guys beat me to it! There's a big BUT with me though. The album's been remastered with increased volume and clipping. Here's a scan of the iTunes version of track 15 at 6:13/14 mark. Ok, so it's just ONE red but it's not just that. The over all sound of the 20th version feels "squashed", not as "fresh" as what the '93 CD offered. I'd love to know if the lossless version addressed that part of the clipping but it'd still be far from what the CD was.

I've only heard snippets of the remastered version through earphones on my ipod. When comparing with the original release (which is no longer on iTunes), I found the "remastered" version to be louder. Louder does not always mean better sound quality. Titanic soundtrack was already screwed up with last years remaster. Even Lion King's 2003 re-issue sounded worse than the '94 release. Like I said I've only heard it through earphones so far but the fact it's louder already bothers me. I'll probably get very little replies with this one but how are the dynamics on the remastered version? Either way won't get it seeing how it's not on CD but still curious.