Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel - 2 LP Vinyl Piringan Hitam PH

1st Pressing

Goldmine Grade, worst to best (item grade in CAPITAL):
VINYL: poor, fair, good, good plus, very good, very good plus, near mint, (MINT)
SLEEVE: poor, fair, good, good plus, very good, very good plus, near mint, (MINT)

Depeche Mode ‎– Playing The Angel

Label: Mute ‎– stumm260, Mute ‎– 0094634020114
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Europe
Released: 17 Oct 2005
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop

Tracklist:
A1 A Pain That I'm Used To
A2 John The Revelator
A3 Suffer Well
B1 The Sinner In Me
B2 Precious
B3 Macro
C1 I Want It All
C2 Nothing's Impossible
C3 Introspectre
C4 Damaged People
D1 Lilian
D2 The Darkest Star

Notes
Gatefold matte cover with printed inner sleeves (which contain generic die-cut inner sleeves with rounded corners). 

Barcode (Scanned): 094634020114

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Depeche Mode Playing The Angel: CD vs Vinyl Comparison (source: brianstagg.co.uk/p_t_a_clipressed)

UPDATE (4th November 2005)

Out of curiosity, I bought the vinyl edition of Playing The Angel, to see if it sounded any better/different. I'm not one of those people who cling on to the belief that vinyl (analog) is a superior format to compact disc (digital). However, my thinking was that the vinyl format simply wouldn't stand the same level of audio abuse as applied to the CD version, so it would have to be mastered more responsibly. Being an analog medium, I didn't expect to see (or hear) clipped peak distortion. I hoped (with fingers crossed) that the dynamic range might be improved. Let's compare...

The vinyl recording was normalized to maximum peak value. Comparing the two waveforms, it's abundantly clear how much sound detail was sacrificed (on the CD edition) for the sake of MAXIMUM LOUDNESS. Is that progress?! I did actually listen to the CD and vinyl versions (at matched volume levels) for the sake of comparison, and my personal opinion was that the subtle details on the vinyl edition were indeed more...errr, subtle! Unlike the CD version, which is the musical equivalent of being shouted at.

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