just got xtc's skylarking corrected polarity edition

[Oldrottenhead]

a wonderful album now even more wonderful

https://www.burningshed.com/store/ape/product/351/5557/

[Hook]

Hmmmmmmm.....I do love that album!

[ODH]

Interesting.

I wonder if the polarity only was changed how many would have noticed.  I presume it's the overall polarity that was wrong; incorrect overall polarity will mean that the initial rise of a transient like a kick drum sends the speaker cone inward rather than out.  If the left channel was out of phase with the right then parts of the bass response would have been sucked out so presumeably it wasn't that.

If it's been remastered as well it will sound different regardless.

What's really great is that this still is important to people on an album nearly 30 years old.  Important enough to change it.

[ODH]

besides, it has pubes on the cover now.  I have to get this.

[Oldrottenhead]

it sounds fabulous, the bass is in yer face. i have the original cd too, and the difference is very noticeable, even to my old shot ears.

[Oldrottenhead]

I wonder if the polarity only was changed how many would have noticed.

they don't have the master tapes, they are lost in storage somewhere, so it's not a remix.