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is the sixth studio album by American rock band Stone Sour. For audiophiles and collectors, obtaining the CD lossless version (FLAC) is the gold standard for listening to this album in its purest digital form before the "Loudness Wars" mastering of streaming services. Stone Sour Hydrograd -2017- FLAC CD
He looked at the CD, then at the shipping label for Tokyo. He thought of the collector, who would lock this disc in a climate-controlled vault and maybe listen to it once, through a fifty-thousand-dollar system, just to say he had. Pro Tip: Configure the software to detect drive
The 2017 CD pressing (US Catalog # 1686-174902) was mastered specifically for the physical format. It retains a high dynamic range (DR) rating. Databases like the Loudness War Database rate the Hydrograd CD at DR8 or DR9, which is excellent for modern rock. The vinyl version sounds great, but the FLAC rip of the offers the noise floor of digital with the dynamics of analog. For audiophiles and collectors, obtaining the CD lossless