This is a sample from the most likely final correction of Supertramp-Crime of the Century by E.E. John Dyson

To my old ears, this sounds more like it was originally a high res recording, not in 16/44.1

Have you previously heard "Bloody Well Right" sound so 3 dimensional ?
This track is best downloaded and played using a high quality S/W player such as JRiver, although it can be played directly by the Dropbox player.

Alex


https://www.dropbox.com/...%20Well%20Right.wav?dl=0


P.S.
J.D. now thinks it is "a little overly strong high-end" on the Crime album. What do you guys think with this particular track ?

Edited by user 09 February 2021 11:31:35(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Thanks Steve. John has since posted a less bright sounding version that I have yet to listen to. I don't have a copy of this album to compare against, only John Dyson's previous versions.
He is currently trying to find a way to improve the low end, but one solution doesn't suit all recordings. The main problem is that John's hearing is highly variable recently, and he sometimes sucks the life out of recordings by too much upper HF attenuation
resulting in the loss of upper HF low level ambience, such as with a Genesis recording with the ambience of a mountain stream, which another member of the group complained about.
Would correcting the low end improve the tonal balance and help to make up for the added brightness ?
I have told John on several occasions that his efforts often sound cold and clinical with a loss of natural warmth.

Kind Regards
Alex

Hi Steve
John is mostly tuning using measurements, and he is a very highly qualified E.E. with Industry connections . In fact his S/W Dolby-A decoder DHNRDS is now a commercial product that has even been of interest to the USA Library of Congress and is being used as a tool
to preserve many earlier recordings for future generations .
It is also being used to recover many of the Masters that were destroyed in that major storage fire, where only some Dolby-A versions remain. His DHNRDS is much more accurate than the Dolby=A hardware decoders.
Yes, quite a few comparisons have been made with the Vinyl and other versions, but the problem is that MANY earlier recordings did not have correctly decoded Dolby-A, or it was used by some Mastering Engineers to make many recordings more suitable for AM radio play.
Another problem is that most of us have become used to the sound of this inappropriate use of Dolby-A to liven up or EQ many recordings.

The present problem, is that John is now attempting to reverse engineer many of these poorly mastered versions, not simply use his S/W as a purely Dolby-A decoder, but in recent months his hearing has become highly variable
due to a medical condition, and for a while he went backwards with his corrections due to this.
Have a listen to things like the YouTube music Video of Norah Jones-Come Away with Me, which hasn't been painted with the Dolby-A brush, and note the difference even in her voice.
You will see that I passed your feedback on to John in the quote below, which I am sure John will not mind me posting here.
Kind Regards
Alex



There is also a discussion thread here,https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/58668-ferala-decoder-free-to-use/#comments
but the main effort is in a PM group of about 10 members including a few E.E.s and S/W people

Sorry but it's horrible. Very peaky at maybe 1k