Quote from PB on October 23, 2026, 4:42 pm

That really narrows it down..."several tracks" haha Give me exact track numbers and time stamps

Quote from JoePopenagen on October 23, 2026, 6:28 pm

So far, I’ve listened to tracks 1 through 3 using phone-style headphones, and I didn’t hear any buzzing or artifacts. For what it’s worth, I always use the latest available version of Foobar2000 to convert FLAC files to PCM WAV, without any compression, special settings, or anything unusual. I’ll test them on my own setup in a little while...

I’ll tell you later.

 

Quote from JohnLaidlaw on October 24, 2026, 1:15 pm

I listened to this out of curiosity and I hear nothing but the music and silence inbetween tracks ..I have a copy and it plays perfectly ..

Quote from junglejim on October 25, 2026, 4:38 pm

Sorry about being non-specific. I listened to it again, it is quite subtle. At the start of "Dancing with the moonlit knight" and at the start of "Firth of fifth", since the beginning, about each 1 or 1.5 seconds, there is a low "thump", like something spinning at every disc turn. You have to listen to it loud, but even at this loudness no other pbthal rip does this. I have not changed or converted the file in any way. Maybe it's my amp doing something weird, but it never happened on any other of the dozens of rips I heard. Sorry if this is a false alarm only on my part.

Quote from junglejim on October 25, 2026, 5:32 pm

There I looked at the wavefile in Audacity and you can see it at 1 sec then 2.3 then 3.7 then 5 sec and so on. Maybe I am too picky and most won't hear it, but as I said I never heard that on all the other wonderful rips. At least it's not my ears.

Quote from Drybonz on October 25, 2026, 6:08 pm

You have probably already seen this, but there has been (at least one) other rip of this album after this one... I think a different pressing, but you can check that out as well.

Quote from JoePopenagen on October 26, 2026, 5:11 pm

I listened to the whole album on my setup and didn't notice any noise, artifacts, or strange things, and in fact, I had the EMI 100 version, and I replaced it with this one in question.