Ewok
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Greetings audiophiles. I have been checking a bunch of my FLAC's with SPEK and found something very odd with 2 Oasis albums FLAC's I have. One is supposedly from a 2011 remaster (on the right), another is from a 2014 deluxe special edition remaster (on the left).
Both are clearly legitimate FLAC files due to the frequency ranges and being far from an expert I had wondered if the right hand one was simply louder. Much to my surprise the left hand track is a lot louder. The right one does show a slightly higher bitrate but the difference between the 2 images is huge and doesnt look like a slight difference in bitrate.
Can anyone shed some light on this, I am trying to decide which one to keep, i.e. which is the better quality file. To me it looks like the quieter but much fuller SPEK file on the right is the one to keep but I am not sure if I am reading it correctly or not, it looks like there is a lot more data in there. Listening to them it is hard for me to judge which is better as I have not used replaygain on them yet and the left one is a lot louder making it hard to judge. They do definitely sound different though. It is not isolated to these 2 tracks either, it is the same thing across the entire album.
Both are clearly legitimate FLAC files due to the frequency ranges and being far from an expert I had wondered if the right hand one was simply louder. Much to my surprise the left hand track is a lot louder. The right one does show a slightly higher bitrate but the difference between the 2 images is huge and doesnt look like a slight difference in bitrate.
Can anyone shed some light on this, I am trying to decide which one to keep, i.e. which is the better quality file. To me it looks like the quieter but much fuller SPEK file on the right is the one to keep but I am not sure if I am reading it correctly or not, it looks like there is a lot more data in there. Listening to them it is hard for me to judge which is better as I have not used replaygain on them yet and the left one is a lot louder making it hard to judge. They do definitely sound different though. It is not isolated to these 2 tracks either, it is the same thing across the entire album.
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