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What could be more important than the life of the music? What We’re Listening For on A Night at the Opera The highest quality equipment, on the hottest Hot Stamper copies, will play the loudest and most difficult to reproduce passages of this album with virtually no edge, grit or grain, even at very loud levels. Almost all copies will have at least a slight edge to the vocals - the boys want to really belt it out in the choruses, and they do - but the best copies keep everything under control, without sounding compressed, dark, dull or smeary. Number Two: edgy vocals, which is related to Number One above. Consequently, the upper midrange area does not get overloaded and overwhelmed with musical information. #Queen a night at the opera vinyl vintage fullWith the more solid sounding copies, the lower mids are full and rich above them, the next “level up” so to speak, there’s plenty of space in which to fit all the instruments and voices comfortably, not piling them one on top of another as is often the case. This is especially noticeable on the songs with huge choruses, and A Night at the Opera is stuffed with those kinds of heavily-multi-tracked songs. When the tonality is shifted-up, even slightly, or there is too much compression, there will be too many elements - voices, guitars, drums - vying for space in the upper part of the midrange, causing congestion and a loss of clarity. Number one: Too many instruments and voices jammed into too little space in the upper midrange. Playing the record is the only way to hear all of the qualities we discuss above, and playing the best pressings against a pile of other copies under rigorously controlled conditions is the only way to find a pressing that sounds as good as this one does. No doubt there’s more but we hope that should do for now.
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