... I have a longer rip complete with bleeps at the end of the reel after the last track but I doubt o [?] shared that. This looks like it though if it had the picture of the tape with it. It should sound pristine with no pops or crackle too.
"Pristine" would perhaps be overstating it, but Fuzi's/John's/my files feature neither crackles nor pops, as far as I can tell from a quick listen. There is considerable tape hiss, though.
Track 9 (Indian Pacific) has, in the first second, a faint "krk" sound that could also have been produced by dirt in a groove. It's been a long time since I worked with tapes, but I doubt that the rip can be from a record. The noise seems too tape-hissy to me.
I realise that I didn't express myself clearly before: the images of the tape box come from you. I edited tags and folder image before uploading, based on the assumption that your rip and this one are identical or at least come from the same data source. The rip, as I received it some time ago, had only images of the Peer record. But it was somehow accompanied by the information that it is a copy of the master tape. Which I noted in tags at that time.
Today I updated the tags, under the assumption that your (Retronic's) rip and Fuzi's/John's/mine are identical. Which is clearly not the case, since your rip has bleeps. But they could still come from the same source. Maybe the difference is merely due to an edit by someone who does not like bleeps.
Comparing spectrals is only easy if files have the same length and the same sounds in the same place. Otherwise one may get a false negative.
Track 9 offers a solution: if your rip also featured the "krk" (see above), we could conclude that Fuzi's/John's/my rip was made from your rip. Otherwise they will indeed be different and were produced completely independently.
