NJG999
Novice Member
Has anyone noticed what a mess Dark Side Of The Moon is on Amazon Music Unlimited (in their Ultra HD format)?
Four of the nine tracks (I'm saying nine, but they're listing ten, because they've split the opening medley track into two) are 192/24 whilst the remainder are in 96/24. I'll use the track numbers from the CD copy of the album I have (so track 4 for example is The Great Gig In The Sky) - tracks 4,5,8 and 9 are in the higher resolution. Why have they done that?! Not only does that seem completely unnecessary but it also results in issues with gapless playback, certainly via the Denon/Marantz HEOS implementaton, which struggles with the transition between the two resolutions, causing Amazon's claimed gapless playback to be anything but gapless between tracks 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8.
It's less noticeable playing through Amazon's own app (Android or PC) but it's still discernable as a faint click between some of the track changes. Worse still, the transition between tracks 5 and 6 is awful, with the final ten seconds or so of track 5 (Money) being repeated at the beginning of track 6 (Us And Them) - it sounds like a really bad edit!
It seems incredible to me that almost 50 years after the release of this classic album that its presentation still can't be got right consistently - i.e. as the artist intended. It's not even the digital age that can be blamed - the compact disc version was faultlessly gapless! Come on Amazon Music, sort it out - especially on a subscription supposedly premium platform!
Neil G
Four of the nine tracks (I'm saying nine, but they're listing ten, because they've split the opening medley track into two) are 192/24 whilst the remainder are in 96/24. I'll use the track numbers from the CD copy of the album I have (so track 4 for example is The Great Gig In The Sky) - tracks 4,5,8 and 9 are in the higher resolution. Why have they done that?! Not only does that seem completely unnecessary but it also results in issues with gapless playback, certainly via the Denon/Marantz HEOS implementaton, which struggles with the transition between the two resolutions, causing Amazon's claimed gapless playback to be anything but gapless between tracks 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8.
It's less noticeable playing through Amazon's own app (Android or PC) but it's still discernable as a faint click between some of the track changes. Worse still, the transition between tracks 5 and 6 is awful, with the final ten seconds or so of track 5 (Money) being repeated at the beginning of track 6 (Us And Them) - it sounds like a really bad edit!
It seems incredible to me that almost 50 years after the release of this classic album that its presentation still can't be got right consistently - i.e. as the artist intended. It's not even the digital age that can be blamed - the compact disc version was faultlessly gapless! Come on Amazon Music, sort it out - especially on a subscription supposedly premium platform!
Neil G