- The Very Best Of Rainbow-flac-... [upd] — Rainbow - 1997

A pristine FLAC rip played through a decent Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) and a pair of quality headphones reveals a wide, three-dimensional soundstage. You can easily pinpoint the keyboard placement of Don Airey relative to Blackmore's amplifier. What to Look for in a Accurate Lossless Rip

Blackmore’s Stratocaster is clearly separated from the heavy organ and synth backdrops.

: The multi-layered production by Martin Birch (Dio era) and Roger Glover (Bonnet/Turner eras) positions instruments across a wide soundstage. Lossless encoding ensures that the panning elements across left and right channels remain clear and distinct. Go to product viewer dialog for this item. Rainbow – The Very Best Of Rainbow (CD)

If you are interested, I can provide information on where to find this 1997 release, or recommend other essential Rainbow albums to listen to in FLAC format. Rainbow - 1997 - The Very Best of Rainbow-FLAC-...

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In the mid-to-late 90s, mastering engineers were still respecting the "dynamic range" of recordings before the "Loudness Wars" took over. The 1997 Very Best of Rainbow is often cited by fans for having a balanced EQ that doesn't "clip" or distort during Blackmore’s more aggressive solos.

Blackmore was a master of controlled feedback and harmonics (listen to the sustain on “Difficult to Cure”). In 320kbps MP3, that harmonic spectrum folds into digital artifacts. In FLAC, it remains three-dimensional. A pristine FLAC rip played through a decent

The 1997 mastering, heard in FLAC, avoids the extreme "loudness wars" compression found in later remasters, allowing for quiet passages to feel quiet and heavy passages to feel massive.

Then, the gears shift. We move into the Graham Bonnet era with the explosive "Since You Been Gone" —a track that defined an era of stadium rock. The FLAC mastering brings out the punch of Cozy Powell’s drumming here; the snare hits are crisp, and the cymbal decay feels natural and un compressed.

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If you have acquired a folder with this album, you will often see several files besides just the audio. Here is what they do:

Rainbow was infamous for its ever-revolving door of elite musicians. The 1997 collection reflects these rapid personnel changes across production and instrumentation: Source Album (Year) Lead Vocals Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (1975) Ronnie James Dio Craig Gruber Gary Driscoll Mickey Lee Soule 3–4 Rising (1976) Ronnie James Dio Jimmy Bain Cozy Powell Tony Carey 5–7 Long Live Rock 'N' Roll (1978) Ronnie James Dio Bob Daisley / Blackmore Cozy Powell David Stone 8–9 Down To Earth (1979) Graham Bonnet Roger Glover Cozy Powell 10–12 Difficult To Cure / Single (1981) Joe Lynn Turner Roger Glover Bob Rondinelli 11–14 Straight Between The Eyes (1982) Joe Lynn Turner Roger Glover Bob Rondinelli David Rosenthal 15–16 Bent Out Of Shape (1983) Joe Lynn Turner Roger Glover Chuck Burgi David Rosenthal Why Audiophiles Demand FLAC for This Album