Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Mojo (Reprise Records Web Edition 24/48) 2010

Uploader's Notes

The purchase of the Blu-Ray or vinyl edition of Mojo includes a free download for high resolution 24-48 FLAC

The originals very badly tagged and named, with a lot of nonascii characters.

Originally they were decoded as:
FLAC settings: exhaustiveModelSearch:0 midSideStereo:0 looseMidSideStereo:0 QLPCoeffPrecision:0, ,enableQLPCoeffPrecisionSearch:0, minResidualPartitionOrder:0, maxResidualPartitionOrder:3, maxLPCOrder:0, apodization:tukey(0.5)

I used dBpoweramp's FLAC decoder 1.2.0 and decoded them to level 8. Originally the files were 778 mb, after recoding they were 739 mb.

On the vinyl sleeve, there were notes that the vinyl was mastered from the "Uncompressed 24 Bit 48 kHz" files.
Obviously the uncompressed files were used also for this 24-48 download, as the signal is nearly unprocessed and the crest factor (dynamics) is only 11.5 dB on the CD version.
The 24 Bit 48 kHz version down-converted to the regular CD standard is above 18 dB dynamic on the same track.

It's more than 7 dB higher dynamic. Why in the world do they compress the original CD version at all?

One thing is clear, it's no mistake that they use compression on most CD releases today, even more on so called Remasters.
The producers and technicians know very well how good sound is made and they have the equipment and knowledge too. In spite of that, there is a lot of compression used!!!