ABBA's Dancing Queen, Best Source? |
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ABBA's Dancing Queen, Best Source? |
 Sep 14 2009, 01:40
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 Group: Members Posts: 42 Joined: 17-July 03 From: Cleveland, Ohio Member No.: 7836  |
I've read that the best CD source for ABBA's "Dancing Queen" is ABBA's Greatest Hits Vol 2 pre-remaster. (Source) I've read that "Dancing Queen" has inverted stereo. (Source) I also believe I've read somewhere that the Gold version had stereo anomalies and the Greatest Hits Vol 2 version was pretty much the same without the anomalies.
So my question is this: Can I essentially get a Greatest Hits Vol 2 version of "Dancing Queen" by simply swapping the channels of the Gold version, or is the anomaly more complicated than just a left/right swap? -------------------- Project Leader of DDResampled
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Sep 14 2009, 20:13
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Group: Members Posts: 2114 Joined: 24-August 07 From: Silicon Valley Member No.: 46454 |
I have ABBA Gold, and I never noticed anything wrong.
I wouldn't know if left/right were reversed. I have no idea how the group sets-up physically, and it's not something I even think about... |
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Nov 1 2009, 10:57
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Group: Members Posts: 0 Joined: 1-November 09 Member No.: 74512 |
There have been a number of different remastetrings of ABBA Gold over the years.
1992 Tretow - Remastered by Michael B. Tretow. Original dynamic range intact although rather bright EQ at times 1999 Astley - Terrible EQ, heaps of compression and a whole lot of Noise Reduction 2008 Jonsson - Very very loud, no noise reduction and better EQ than Astley. Dancing Queen sounds different in all of these versions, and also sounds different again in the Greatest Hits Vol. 2 CD. Rudolf Ondrich, I am the webmaster of http://www.abbajustlikethat.comyr.com/ |
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Nov 2 2009, 11:37
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 ReplayGain developer Group: Developer Posts: 4586 Joined: 5-November 01 From: Yorkshire, UK Member No.: 409 |
http://www.abbajustlikethat.comyr.com/1_4_...ile-Corner.html
Wow - I never knew! (I knew some Abba CDs sounded awful, but I didn't know the story was even worse than The Beatles CDs!) Thanks for posting that Rudolf. Back to the vinyl then! (though sadly that isn't always in the best condition - people actually played their Abba records!  )Cheers, David. |
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Nov 7 2011, 01:26
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Group: Members Posts: 36 Joined: 26-October 11 Member No.: 94698 |
QUOTE (CyberTootie @ Sep 13 2009, 17:40)  I've read that the best CD source for ABBA's "Dancing Queen" is ABBA's Greatest Hits Vol 2 pre-remaster. (Source) I've read that "Dancing Queen" has inverted stereo. (Source) I also believe I've read somewhere that the Gold version had stereo anomalies and the Greatest Hits Vol 2 version was pretty much the same without the anomalies. So my question is this: Can I essentially get a Greatest Hits Vol 2 version of "Dancing Queen" by simply swapping the channels of the Gold version, or is the anomaly more complicated than just a left/right swap? I have the original copy from the album, Arrival. Sounds great to me! -------------------- Harry
-- http://harry.cckerala.com Streaming Pop & Rock tunes |
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