Comparative Visualization

Madonna - True Blue

Album Information

Catalog #: 9 25442-2
Barcode: 07599254422
Matrix: 1 25442-2 SRC+14

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Matrix: 25442-2 5

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Comments

I picked up a copy of True blue because it was a Japan pressing and I wasn’t sure which pressing I had.  Half-off sale, so why not?  Turns out my existing copy was a US pressing (SRC-11, which I believe is pretty late).  I also noticed that my new japan copy didn’t have the artist or album name on the front cover.  Very strange.  So with such a different period of creation, it would be worth checking out to see if it got a secret remastering.

Well, the US copy has some slight differences, but not significant.  The amplitudes are higher in some places, but in both cases, the album peaks at 100%.  Not brickwalled, but definitely normalized.