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TCA's Collection

Whitesnake   08/26/1979

Reading Festival, Reading, UK
Source Liberated Bootleg
Media FLAC   1 disc
Notes "Wrathchild"
Tech Notes This came from Xm Radio. I suspect that it came from a sbd or fm feed originally. It may sound like an mp3 just because that's kind of the way XM is. They use their own compression scheme and cut the high end at 15khz. The digi-out mod helps boost the high end a bit but never re-creates the loss above 15khz.
Cool, thanks for the 'xplanation.

Because it is compressed pretty starkly at the 15kHz level. It "sounds" fine, but I never guess MP3 based on sound; it's purely a matter of frequency & spectrum.

I've been thinking about this, and this show/seed is in fact MORE lossy than a 128 bitrate MP3, as XM Satellite Radio compressed the shit out of the original audio broadcast. The high-end audio cuts off at 15,000 kHz
Trades Allowed Yes
Owned by TCA · Last Updated May 23, 2023