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A while ago I bought the Esoteric CD release of Poland. The liner notes and booklet presentation are superb, but I was disappointed (as others have been) with the sound quality. I believe this has something to do with whoever did the mastering using noise reduction - there's no hiss, true, but the overall sound loses it's sparkle and wallop, at least to my ears.

Anyway, I recently dug out my Relativity double CD version of Poland and transferred it to my mp3 player. Wow. The difference is amazing, and listening to it on headphones to and from work, it sounds as good as my original Jive Electro tape of the album from all those years ago. It sounds terrific, the sonic range, deep base and clarity is all there, complete with some hiss in the quiet bits ... but who cares? Basically the sound quality on the Relativity release beats the Esoteric one hands down, so I can recommend it to anyone unsatisfied with the Esoteric version.
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For my money, the best quality release overall is the original edited Jive Electro CD. Very powerful overall, frequencies well handled. The Relativity release, although good & refreshingly complete, has always sounded a little bit tinnier to my ears - and I first heard this release many, many, moons ago, when my own aural equipment was in much better nick!
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paul wood wrote:For my money, the best quality release overall is the original edited Jive Electro CD. Very powerful overall, frequencies well handled. The Relativity release, although good & refreshingly complete, has always sounded a little bit tinnier to my ears - and I first heard this release many, many, moons ago, when my own aural equipment was in much better nick!
Stuntman was always way better though :lol: :lol:
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paul wood wrote:For my money, the best quality release overall is the original edited Jive Electro CD. Very powerful overall, frequencies well handled. The Relativity release, although good & refreshingly complete, has always sounded a little bit tinnier to my ears - and I first heard this release many, many, moons ago, when my own aural equipment was in much better nick!
I dare say the sound quality on the Jive Electro CD was very good. But the problem I had at the time was that I heard it was a single CD and some of the music from the double album was missing. This factor devalued it for me so I never bought it.
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T4N63R1N3 DR34M wrote:
paul wood wrote:For my money, the best quality release overall is the original edited Jive Electro CD. Very powerful overall, frequencies well handled. The Relativity release, although good & refreshingly complete, has always sounded a little bit tinnier to my ears - and I first heard this release many, many, moons ago, when my own aural equipment was in much better nick!
Stuntman was always way better though :lol: :lol:
Stuntman? Isn't that a film starring Peter O'Toole? :D
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buy the Esoteric release - throw away the discs, replace them with whichever CDs you think are the best - hey presto - the definitive release. So - far ;)
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rigel wrote:
paul wood wrote:For my money, the best quality release overall is the original edited Jive Electro CD. Very powerful overall, frequencies well handled. The Relativity release, although good & refreshingly complete, has always sounded a little bit tinnier to my ears - and I first heard this release many, many, moons ago, when my own aural equipment was in much better nick!
I dare say the sound quality on the Jive Electro CD was very good. But the problem I had at the time was that I heard it was a single CD and some of the music from the double album was missing. This factor devalued it for me so I never bought it.
You're absolutely right, of course. Jive Electro's release loses a lot of brownie points for being incomplete. One can only assume it was a budget-based decision to release it this way. It was released quite early into the CD era, so perhaps Jive could not afford to put out a full double disc version. A great shame. The Relativity release comes a close second however, and I can well understand why a lot of fans favour this particular edition as the best of the bunch.
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24db wrote:buy the Esoteric release - throw away the discs, replace them with whichever CDs you think are the best - hey presto - the definitive release. So - far ;)
Good idea :D
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Whatever the format, an absolutely brilliant album with the Schmoelling influenced band at the height of their powers
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Steve C wrote:Whatever the format, an absolutely brilliant album with the Schmoelling influenced band at the height of their powers
I couldn't agree with you more. This album has so many highlights. It doesn't get any better than this...and Logos of course!
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rigel wrote:
Steve C wrote:Whatever the format, an absolutely brilliant album with the Schmoelling influenced band at the height of their powers
I couldn't agree with you more. This album has so many highlights. It doesn't get any better than this...and Logos of course!
Yes, 3 great UK tours from 80,81 & 82, together with the Poland album in 83 were all highlights. You can only imagine how frustrated I was not to discover TD until 1976, thereby missing the classic mid 70's tours.
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Steve C wrote:
rigel wrote:
Steve C wrote:Whatever the format, an absolutely brilliant album with the Schmoelling influenced band at the height of their powers
I couldn't agree with you more. This album has so many highlights. It doesn't get any better than this...and Logos of course!
Yes, 3 great UK tours from 80,81 & 82, together with the Poland album in 83 were all highlights. You can only imagine how frustrated I was not to discover TD until 1976, thereby missing the classic mid 70's tours.
Even worse for me (not that it's a competition :lol: ) because I discovered TD in 1988, so I missed the best tours they did.
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I tend to just get the latest version of whatever's released these days, my ears are too f'cked with gigs to pick out the nuances in sound quality one way or another anyway :roll: :lol:
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