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It seems that they aren't HDCDs.Could somebody please tell me, if these CDs have HDCD encoding like the AM+ ones?
@Randy M I have got the other Version, and you are right: "Hurting Each Other" is "brick-walled", but in my version on both Channels. On the left a tiny bit more but the right Channel is also pretty loud. And it has some audible background noise on Karens vocals.I think this is where I got Hurting Each Other with the left channel brick-walled and compressed, while the right channel has all the dynamics.
I've got several Carpenter CDs. One of them has Karen singing in the left channel of Hurting Each Other. She sings on the right channel, too, but sounds like she is only in the left channel.My CDs arrived Yesterday very late in the evening:
It seems that they aren't HDCDs.
@Randy M I have got the other Version, and you are right: "Hurting Each Other" is "brick-walled", but in my version on both Channels. On the left a tiny bit more but the right Channel is also pretty loud. And it has some audible background noise on Karens vocals.
Otherwise the CDs sound great. Especially Offering!
One more interesting thing: The Resource says that Piano Picker is the faster Album mix, but on my version I got the 1987 remix! It sounds exactly like the Version on "Magical Memories of the Carpenters". I don't have the fast version for for comparison.
That is strange. Most likely some kind of mixing error.I've got several Carpenter CDs. One of them has Karen singing in the left channel of Hurting Each Other. She sings on the right channel, too, but sounds like she is only in the left channel.
This is the same in my version, (This one: https://www.discogs.com/release/7530527-Carpenters-The-Compact-Disc-Collection) but I can also hear strange background noises (hissing and crackling) in Karens Lead vocal. They aren't present on my "Remastered Classics" version. Is it possible that these CDs (I mean the two versions of the Compact Disc Collection) are mastered differently? This could explain why I have the 1987 remix of Piano Picker on my version.On that album (CD), the stereo balance "Hurting Each Other" is lightly tilted to the left.