CD's Released after after year 2000 That Are "NOT" Compressed/Brickwalled/Loud

Moby Grape - Sundazed reissues
Pink Floyd - Piper box
Gene Clark - the Sundazed Gosdin Bros reissues
George Harrison - Living In The Material World
John Cale - Paris 1919
Love - s/t, De Capo, Forever Changes reissues
Elvis - The Sun Years
Elvis - the first 3 RCA albums
Elvis - The Million Dollar Quartet
The Replacements - the Twin/Tone reissues
Buffalo Springfield - boxset
David Gilmour - s/t remaster
Flying Burrito Brothers - Sin City comp
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Rhino reissues
Dylan - SACD's/remasters
Neil Young - Harvest DVD-A
Neil Young - On the Beach, Stars n Bars, Hawks & Doves, Re-Actor
Neil Young - Filllmore East, Massey Hall, Greatest Hits
Dennis Wilson - POB
Judee Sill - Rhino Handmade reissues (later released on Water with same mastering)
Issac Hayes - MFSL Hot Buttered Soul
Roy Orbison - MFSL All Time Greatest Hits

 

Nice list Chris. I have enough of those to fill in some blanks. Piper Box and Sun Years have been played a ton, on my end. The Pillbugs new CD sounds incredible too.

I bought this and sounds great, as well. The Doobie Brothers - Minute By Minute (Audio Fidelity 24K Gold Disc)

 

Eagles of Death Metal "Heart On" Believe it or not!

 

Really? I was listening to this earlier this week, and it was definitely a lot harsher sounding to me (a -11db on ReplayGain) than Death By Sexy and their first album (which I think sounds great).

I have not looked at the waveform, however.

 

There's only two engineers that I am aware of who still produce dynamic sounding CD's with no sign of digital mastering compression since 2000. They would be our own Steve and Barry Diament.

 

What about Greg Calbi and Marc Wilder? And Bernie Grundman?

 

Vic Anesini mastered my favourite reissues of this year:

Roy Orbison - The soul of rock and roll
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean blue
Laura Nyro - Nested
Laura Nyro - Season of lights

Also hats off for Doug Sax, as Shelby Lynne's Just a little lovin' sounds brilliant.

 

To my ears, I felt the Marshall Tucker remasters had the life sucked out of them. I can't listen to them.

 

The CD remaster of Teena Marie's "It Must be Magic" album on Motown. No compression at all!

 

I have one of these for sale here:

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=165397

 

No limiting, brickwalling or Digital Compression during mastering on any of these:

Allan Holdsworth - Road Games
1st CD issue on Gnarly Geezer label from 2002 IIRC.

The Alan Parsons Project HDAD's, some of the best sounding digital media ever. All from 2005:
I Robot
Turn Of Friendly Card
Eye In The Sky


Sadly these are exceptions to the rule.....

 

Add Doug Sax, Steve's favorite engineer. Although I'm not sure of how much he's put out since '00.

 

Hey ricks, thanks for the Hodsworth recommendation, just put an order in on ebay. cheers!

 

You can add Tim Mulligan and Doug Sax to that list.

 

You're welcome. The levels on the Gnarly Geezer CD are lower than even my old Road Games needledrop. I was shocked; given that All Night Wrong (2002), Then! (2003) and most of Against The Clock (2005) are drenched in Digital Compression, as a result all of them are un-listenable to me.

Rick

 

I just got this year's The Excitement Plan by Todd Snider. On first listen in the car it sounded significantly more open than any new CD I remember buying in the past 10+ years. It was mixed and mastered by Krish Harma, who is unfamiliar to me. Tonight when I ripped it EAC I saw the following Peak Levels:
Track 1 - Peak level 51.3 %
Track 2 - Peak level 61.8 %
Track 3 - Peak level 50.6 %
Track 4 - Peak level 59.9 %
Track 5 - Peak level 65.5 %
Track 6 - Peak level 44.1 %
Track 7 - Peak level 42.2 %
Track 8 - Peak level 51.5 %
Track 9 - Peak level 45.4 %
Track 10 - Peak level 74.8 %
Track 11 - Peak level 63.3 %
Track 12 - Peak level 65.4 %


BTW, the album is VERY good.

 

I have always felt that the 3oth Anniversary CD remaster of All Things Must Pass is an excellent sounding cd

 

Not to show disrespect but...sorry.. I think this is a truly bad sounding disc..

 

I think it sounds pretty nice compared to the previous edition...maybe its me.
No problem we are all entitled to our opinions

 

The Rhino Bee Gees Mono/Stereo CD sets are not brickwalled and are Forum Favorites here.

 

Solomon Burke-Don't Give Up On Me

 

I have never even heard it, but I will say that many forum members here have said that this is a terrible sounding CD, drenched in NR. In fact, I would go so far to say that it is one of the least highly regarded (to say the least) CD remasters of the past 10 years. Now I'm (almost) curious to hear it.

 

The Beatles in Mono?