Adele: Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Johnny Vinyl

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Are the dynamics preserved? Adele is a wonderful, old-school artist whose recordings are hobbled by awful, new-school mastering.

Tim
 

Johnny Vinyl

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Are the dynamics preserved? Adele is a wonderful, old-school artist whose recordings are hobbled by awful, new-school mastering.

Tim

There are no specifics/details about this yet, including her own site (adele.tv), which is kind of surprising really. I'll post when they are set down.
 

garylkoh

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Are the dynamics preserved? Adele is a wonderful, old-school artist whose recordings are hobbled by awful, new-school mastering.

Tim

Yeah, I think that it's sad. But the mastering may have been done to sound best as mp3's. My wife introduced me to Adele and I loved her youtube videos, so bought the CDs and they weren't very good. I bought the LP's and that's just a bit better. So, I bought the mp3's and I thought that they sounded better than the CDs!
 

Johnny Vinyl

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Yeah, I think that it's sad. But the mastering may have been done to sound best as mp3's. My wife introduced me to Adele and I loved her youtube videos, so bought the CDs and they weren't very good. I bought the LP's and that's just a bit better. So, I bought the mp3's and I thought that they sounded better than the CDs!

Agreed. The Adele 19 vinyl I have is noisy and sounds congested. I'm not familiar with Columbia's work (for concerts) on Blu-ray, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this release. If this were an Eagle Rock title I'd say buy it sight unseen and ears unheard as their releases are mostly top-notch.
 

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