Why ruin a great LP
J. Dale | right here | 11/02/2009
(1 out of 5 stars)
"In this day and age , why would anyone compress the sound levels just to gain a louder pressing. The virgin pressing is better. Someone needs to step in and redo the Stones catalog properly."
Great album - really bad sound...
JP | MA | 07/07/2010
(1 out of 5 stars)
"We all would just LOVE to love the new Rolling Stones UMG remasters.
Now, I have the Virgin 1994 Sticky Fingers cd, the Japanese pressings and this new UMG offering.
This new UMG release is GAR-BARGE.
The LOUDNESS WAR is on.
For example, using a waveform audio editor to look at the UMG version of Can't You Hear Me Knocking, you can see the brickwall limiting right up to 0 db full scale.
What that means is clipping, causing god awful distorion and practically NO dynamic range.
It sounds TERRIBLE folks.
The Virgin and Japanese cds are so much better.
They have good dynamic range and no clipping distortion as a result of "THE LOUDNESS WAR."
I simply don't understand the rationale behind ruining a perfectly good product with BAD mastering and processing.
Do yourself a favor. Look for the old Virgin releases.
Stay way away from this one."
Sticky Fingers will not play on macbookpro
ROBERT | Redding, CA, US | 08/18/2010
(3 out of 5 stars)
"I have the "new re-master sticky fingers and it will not play on a new macbook pro...itunes has been loaded with my previous library and will play all other cd's...itunes will not even open with sticky fingers..cd is held in for 10 seconds and then ejected...what the hell?"