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Porcupine Tree: The Incident

Justice For Audio — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:50:07 +0000

The Incident

The sound on this album is fantastic. It is so crisp and lively. The First and second disc are DR 10. The lowest track is DR 9 and the highest is DR13. It is simply a pleasure to listen to.

This continues Steven Wilson’s track record of producing Dynamic music. Fear of a Blank Planet clocked in at DR9 which also sounded great as well as did the reissue of Lightbulb Sun which is DR10. While DR12 or 13 would be even better, Porcupine Tree albums stand head and shoulders above most of their peers. In an age of ear oppressing barriers of noise, PT is bringing back much of what has been lost in the listening experience.

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Theatre of Tragedy – Storm (Remastered) [Unofficial] Samples

Justice For Audio — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:28:01 +0000

Originally a DR6 album – now “re-mastered” to a DR10-level – General dynamics treatments and so on.

Song Downloads:

05 – Fade
08 – Exile

Note: Reduce volume on retail by approximately 5.3db during playback for equal loudness comparison

To enjoy to its fullest, please play on a standalone/dedicated audio system (non-portable – non-builtin) if possible – and turn it up a good bit. The impact, and the resultant attention it draws from the listener as a result of the increased dynamics and seperation of instrumentss helps make the song a lot more memorable & also interesting.

[Waveform Analysis to be posted shortly]

Slipknot – Iowa (Remastered) [Unofficial] Sample

Justice For Audio — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:00:03 +0000

Originally a DR7 heavily clipped album – now “re-mastered” to a DR11-level – General dynamics treatments and so on.

Song Downloads:

03 – Disasterpiece
08 – Left Behind

Note: Reduce volume on retail by approximately 5db during playback for equal loudness comparison

The harsh clipping artifacts and muddiness has been removed as ceany as possible, in addition to maintaining the agressive tone of the abum and increasing the natural dynamics -To enjoy to its fullest, please play on a standalone/dedicated audio system (non-portable – non-builtin) if possible – and turn it up a good bit. The impact, and the resultant attention it draws from the listener as a result of the increased dynamics and seperation of instrumentss helps make the song a lot more memorable & also interesting.

Disasterpiece - Retail (DR7)

Disasterpiece - JFA (DR11)

Dream Theater – Systematic Chaos (Remastered DR11) [Unofficial]

Justice For Audio — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:22:08 +0000

Originally a DR6 heavily clipped album – now “re-mastered” to a DR11-level

Song Download:

01 – In The Presence Of Enemies – Part I
02 – Forsaken
03 – Constant Motion
04 – The Dark Eternal Night
05 – Repentance
06 – Prophets of War
07 – The Ministry of Lost Souls
08 – In Presence Of Enemies – Part II

Note: Reduce volume on retail by approximately 5.5db during playback for equal loudness comparison

The level & dynamics in the DR11 version are now closer to that of previous albums such as Images & Words – So to enjoy to its fullest, please play on a standalone/dedicated audio system (non-portable – non-builtin) if possible – and turn it up a good bit. The impact, and the resultant attention it draws from the listener as a result of the increased dynamics and seperation of instrumentss should help make the song a lot more memorable & also interesting.

Retail CD - Before (DR6)

JFA Re-Master - After (DR11)

BBC 4 Radio Report on Death Magnetic & Sound Issues

Justice For Audio — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:17:11 +0000

Today, BBC 4 Radio in the UK aired a report by Joel Moors on the Consumer Affairs’ programme – You and Yours.

The show interviewed some Metallica fans and also Mastering Engineer Ian Shepherd [Visit Blog]

Joel and Ian dicussed the fundamental problems on the Death Magnetic CD and how it affects the music when played, and why this is done on the CD and not on the version of the album downloaded via the Guitar Hero III Game on the Playstation 3 & XBox 360 consoles, including a direct comparison between the CD version and the GHIII version.

Justice For Audio would like to thank Joel for picking up on the issue and contacting us prior to the programme looking for the views of real metallica fans about the CD.

For an MP3 recording of the report – Grab It Here and for the youtube videos, just press play on each part below.

Part One

Part Two

Metallica Albums Re-Mastered for 2008 – Exciting Sound?

Justice For Audio — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:03:11 +0000

Metallica’s co-manager, Cliff Burnstein is quoted as saying that fans find the sound on Death Magnetic exciting, and are really responding to it – Well if that is the case, one of our supporters here have made this litte video giving their past catalogue the ‘Exciting’ makeover so you can judge for yourself if this is ‘good’ for music.

If you agree that this new ‘exciting’ sound is ruining music, please sign the petition to re-mix and master Death Magnetic to sound like decent music and not an earful of crackle & distortion.

Sign The Petition

Original Youtube Page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUGSrzTNjZw

JFA – We Care About The Sound

Justice For Audio — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:52:25 +0000

Thank you for visiting, this site aims at bringing awareness to the general public about a worrying and disasterous trend in modern recorded music, commonly dubbed “The Loudness Wars”. This is where music is being excessively compressed or “squashed” in terms of loudness so that a song is as loud as possible the entire way through.