This is a reissue! (digital)
LOL
It's the way digital platforms publish their things...
Hope some better version will surface soon.
What!? Amazing. Track quality varies, but quite a few sound as if a lot of dynamic compression had been applied to them (also known as "brick-walling"). So, it may be that such was the sound of the original record. I have doubts though, particularly considering the severe frequency attenuation at 2, 6, 9, 12 and 15 kHz on every track. This is evidence of a defective signal path. I had thus assumed that the ripper (as it often happens) used a cheap mixer for recording.
It seems almost inconceivable that such a spectrum would have gone to the press, or only if Boneschi and consorts had already recorded it in this way.
But I should probably keep in mind that library records were only ever meant to be a showcase of the label and the artist(s) to be skipped through, not as something "to listen to" in the way one listens to commercial records. Sound quality -- at least sometimes -- played a lesser role. Therefore, this may indeed be a truthful rendition of the original record.
(Doubts, doubts, doubts ...)
That said, I've enjoyed the "reissue" immensely nonetheless. Thanks again!
