(Atmospheric Black/Avantgarde Metal) [24/96] [LP] Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia, 1996 (2012); FLAC (tracks)

Ripped from the green/black swirl vinyl. If this is a CD master it's definitely the original CD, rather than the super-compressed reissue. Sounds great to me though.

Don't expect pristine fidelity from the bonus track, since it's a rehearsal.

Eccentric capitalisation is as per the album packaging.

Bang & Olufsen Beogram TX2 (MMC4 tonearm) > Yamaha RX-V10000 > SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium HD > Adobe Audition CS6 > ClickRepair 3.9 (DeClick .25, Pitch Protection, Reverse, Wavelet x2) > Sound eXchange 14.4.0 (-b 24 rate -v -L 96000 dither)

As always, no post-processing apart from click repair and normalisation was done to the recording.

If you are going to distribute a lossy version of this, please downsample to 44.1 kHz before encoding; some media players can't handle non-redbook audio.

foobar2000 1.1.7 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2013-07-02 06:07:07

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Analyzed: Arcturus / Aspera Hiems Symfonia
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 -0.22 dB -15.27 dB 6:45 01-To Thou who dwellest in the Night
DR10 -1.95 dB -15.46 dB 4:33 02-Wintry Grey
DR13 -1.02 dB -16.58 dB 5:14 03-Whence & whither goest the Wind
DR11 -2.46 dB -15.57 dB 5:48 04-Raudt og Svart
DR11 -1.42 dB -15.23 dB 4:35 05-The Bodkin & the Quietus (...to Reach the Stars)
DR10 -3.01 dB -15.66 dB 3:59 06-Du Nordavind
DR11 -0.10 dB -15.67 dB 6:05 07-Fall of Man
DR11 -0.98 dB -15.13 dB 4:20 08-Naar Kulda Tar (Frostnettenes Prolog)
DR9 -7.44 dB -17.85 dB 4:27 09-The Bodkin... (Early 94 Rehearsal Version)
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Number of tracks: 9
Official DR value: DR11

Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 3090 kbps
Codec: FLAC