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Metallica Defend 'Death Magnetic' Sound Quality

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  • Love the album...the songs are great, however, the sound quality is not. At first I thought that my headphones were just old and broken. Then I listened to the album through my studio headphones, and it was still there. The album sounds distorted at times, which is a bit disappointing but not enough to ruin the album for me. I just listen to it at a lower volume and rock out. Plus, I’m sure that these songs are going to sound great live.

    ~ by Funkywanderer 9/25/2008

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  • I bought the CD the day it came out, and I love every second of it. I cant even look at the Metallica message boards anymore. Its just a bunch of fanboys who claim they hear clipping on the album. I havent picked up on any defects in my copy, and I havent stopped listening to it since. Death Magnetic is a masterpiece. Go out and buy it!

    ~ by unholyttb 9/25/2008

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  • Metallica has drop the H-Bomb in the Loudness War, it’s a nice contribution to kill music.

    ~ by John Cadmen 9/25/2008

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  • My first experience with the strange sound quality was with the streams made available before the album release, which I assumed was a result of some sort of download deterrent to preserve record sales. After buying the CD, the quality is not improved. Track 8 @ 4:30 - perfect illustrated example of the garbled sound. Bass and low E palm mutes are distorted - horribly. The album is awesome, it just wasn’t recorded or mastered properly. Compression errors perhaps? Audio skips in places

    ~ by Matt the Metclub Member 9/25/2008

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  • FANBOY??? Only REAL metallica Fans Care on how it sounds,and it’s BAD,so your the Fanboy you fly by night EMO metallica fan

    ~ by FIXTHE CD 9/25/2008

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