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Vinyl vs Spotify 160kbps re-mastered feat. Werwolf. Iron Maiden : Wrathchild (Killers, 1981).

The sole purpose of this video is to get you to do the test using your home sound system to see if there is a difference between the original vinyl mastering and 90’s re-mastering.

Once again proper speakers or headphones are recommended over laptop or mobile phone speakers. Although, I wouldn’t assume a true audio geek to listen anything on mobile phone or laptop speakers.. :D

Yes, the YouTube mp3 audio is not the best way to do the demonstration, but it’s a way anyway and at the moment I cannot think of a better one to get the message thru. Unless you do the comparison yourself and leave a comment on how does it sound to you.

Mr Werwolf, an amazing vocalist / musician and my dear friend has been a vinyl listening dude most of his life. Vinyls have always remained his number one choice of listening platforms.

We use Dual CS 435 vinyl player connected to Yamaha RX-V2700 av receiver phono input and a laptop with Spotify app installed to Yamaha v-aux input. No processing was done to the audio files. Level matching wasn’t the easiest and the meter-only-watching-audio-geeks most likely cannot tolerate this test either as the meters say things are not correct. Measuring “energy” and “presence” of music with meters is like measuring the difference between having sex and making love using only a stopwatch..

Levels were matched by using both the RMS and ear. Yes, the mastering most likely is not the same and there are many variables that affect the sound. This mastering-theme will be covered on our future videos.

I personally think that when listening to balance, tone and pitch there is not that much of a difference, but when listening the “presence”, “energy” and “hollowness” there is a huge difference. If you cannot hear any difference on this video, try using a vinyl player and Spotify and not a YouTube video.

Leave a comment below on how does it sound to you. This is not a math test, but a description of art & how it makes you feel so there are no right or wrong answers; only audio geeking.

Produced by A. Kippo @ Astia-studio A (Lappeenranta, Finland).

Video editing by Toni Paananen.

Gear used:

Dual CS 435 vinyl player
MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011) w/Spotify Premium 160kbps
Yamaha RX-V2700

We don’t own any rights for Iron Maiden song Wrathchild used on this demonstration. (c) 1981 Original sound recordings made by EMI Records Ltd.

Thanks for watching and reading this info text. Stay tuned for more geeky stuff.

With best regards,

Anssi Kippo
Astia-studio
Lappeenranta, Finland.

(c) All other than the Iron Maiden song rights belong to Astia-studio and Toni Paananen 2016. No copying or any other use of this video or music track is allowed.