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CD was mastered with excessive gain levels
I love Hans Zimmer's work and although the music itself, in this album, is not his best, in my opinion, it's still enjoyable - at least in those tracks where the recordings were not mastered with excessive volume levels.
Unfortunately, several tracks suffer severe clipping - where the maximum possible gain (volume) that can be recorded in a 16-bit file is reached, causing a severe loss of detail and an overall loss of dynamics throughout the entire track.
The following tracks were mastered with excessive gain: 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 15.
That's 9 out of 15, or nearly two thirds of the CD, ruined by poor mastering.
So now we have to wait a couple of years (if ever) for someone to come along and remaster these recordings with reasonable gain levels.
