"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Iain Churches" wrote in message

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"Iain Churches" wrote in message


Take a look:
It's not pretty!

http://www.kolumbus.fi/iain.churches...Comparison.png



Yecch!

Obvioiusly, the vendor lied - they did not give you a
1:1 reproduction run or anything like it.

Indeed. 1:1 was stipulated.

The sad of the story is that they obviously did extra
work over what was actually required.

Probably not. I am inclined to think what Jim suggested
may be correct - this project fell victim to an automated
generic pop mastering process, where heavy compression
and brickwall limiting are the norm.

This begs the question: "Did anyone actually listen to
the music?"

They either hate classical music, or they thought they
were doing you a favor.

The may have been stimulated to rework your master since
the peak levels were so low.

The peak levels were at the standard used for classical
masters and pre-production masters -10dB FS

That would be a local standard.

If you regard Decca and DGG as local:-))

Do not confuse the studio master and production
pre-master levels with that of the finished disc,
which is a matter for individual consideration at the
mastering stage.

In this instance, 1:1 was stipulated i.e. a bit-for-
bit clone.

Iain