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The 2009 remaster boosted the bass to a muddy rumble. The 2011 remaster rolls the bass back into a warm, melodic throb. In FLAC, the bass guitar on Lounge Act is a lead instrument again. You can follow the fretless slide without your subwoofer trying to eat your drywall. Nirvana - Nevermind -2011- Remastered FLAC Soup
The middle of our keyword string, , stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. In the era of MP3s, audio data was compressed to save space, discarding frequencies the human ear supposedly couldn't hear. But MP3s were a compromise of convenience over quality. Should you spend hours on Soulseek, private trackers,
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For the 2011 remaster specifically, the FLAC format is crucial. Because the remaster is already plagued by compression artifacts (brick-wall limiting), introducing MP3 compression artifacts on top of that would result in a "swirly," distorted mess. FLAC ensures that the listener hears the remaster exactly as the engineers intended—even if that intention is controversial.