Awesome! Just don't buy it on CD or you won't notice the dynamic range. CDs are known for killing that. Long live the LP.

Wow! Thats a surprise! Nice to see bands who cares about quality of their music, instead of those who make all that over-compressed shit nowadays.

The funny thing is that if you don't master it like they used to do in the late 90s/early 00s, you'll be fine with a nice dynamic range already. It's the loudness wars the mastering facilities/bands/labels got into that ruined a lot of the dynamics in music. The CD didn't help either so the best you can do is to buy an LP copy on ANY album you like. The difference is sometimes MAJOR.

So, are the band going to get anything from this re-sissue? Because they didn't get anything from the remaster that came out in 2005, and I can't help but wonder if this is another Earache cash-in from which the band themselves will receive...no cash.

Doesn't compress sound. The trouble is the mastering. If the same remaster is used for both formats, you won't hear any difference. That said, I only buy vinyl records myself.

That cd's have bretter dynamic range han vinyl. Google vinyl vs. cd myths for more info.

"The dynamic range of vinyl, when evaluated as the ratio of a peak sinusoidal amplitude to the peak noise density at that sine wave frequency, is somewhere around 80 dB. Under theoretically ideal conditions, this could perhaps improve to 120 dB. The dynamic range of CDs, when evaluated on a frequency-dependent basis and performed with proper dithering and oversampling, is somewhere around 150 dB. Under no legitimate circumstances will the dynamic range of vinyl ever exceed the dynamic range of CD, under any frequency, given the wide performance gap and the physical limitations of vinyl playback."

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Myths_(Vinyl)

What bullshit. Increasing the RMS of the signal at the expense of the dymanic range is a GOOD THING because it preserves bit depth. I agree that a lot of albums are pushed past the limitations of CDs and are "clipped" but if you don't clip the signal, there's no harm done.

HOD is right, vinyl has far more problems with compromised dynamics because you MUST compress them in the mastering stage to prevent the needle from jumping. You have to compress them anyway to mask the tracking noise, which STILL is overbearingly loud.

Vinyl is crap anyway. they have massive amounts of crosstalk, the equipment is microphonic, tracking noise, skip as much if not more than a CD and have legendarily poor treble response. Just because people enjoy low-ordered distortion doesn't make it more accurate.

Modern CDs sound poor compared to earlier versions because of tapes that are in worse shape, bad EQ, a poor understand even among audio engineers about the total increase of power when summing signals, ect. There are issues because people are either inexperienced or poorly trained. For example, the theory that if you double the tracks and play them back at the same volume, you get a 3db increase. This is not true because that operation is frequency dependent. Sine waves do not equal complex music Adding two signals together can have as much as a 9db increase in my experience. People are confusing how speaker design and how wattage adds up to how digital mixing works.

Thank you very much Professor Science.