April already here. While looking forward to dCS announcements, now looking back:
A long time favourite of mine, still simply fantastic. Transcendent beauty.
A recent review: https://guitar.com/review/the-genius-of-heaven-or-las-vegas-by-cocteau-twins/
Tidal FLAC 44.1kHz 16bit
Couldn’t agree more, just a brilliant album. It’s on Qobuz in 24/96 by the way!! 
Thanks Anup, I now consider a double subscription, to both Tidal and Qobuz 
I just did take a Studio Premier Qobuz trial, and listened to its offered 24/96 version. It sounds considerably less dynamic than the lower rated 44.1/16 Tidal version. Through Roon. I had to put in +20dB to match sound level.
There’s one version on Tidal in 44/16 labeled “Remastered… released in 1990”. There are two versions on Qobuz, a 44/16 Remastered from 2004, and a 96/24 version released in 2014. The two 44/16 versions are in fact identical.
Here’s the kicker though, the Qobuz 96/24 release is considerably more dynamic than the 44/16 versions, you might be confusing loudness with dynamics 
Let me show you objectively (via Adobe Audition). Images: Tidal 44/16, Qobuz 44/16, and Qobuz 96/24 respectively.
I’d be up for devoting April entirely to that album. Fantastic tunes.
Will put it on now. And change it in May 
This is a favourite of mine too…
And my really “The Best” of Van the Man
Qobuz 24/96
Do you check my library? This is the only one I like from Boz.
Indeed I confused them, English is not my native language. Thanks for clearing that up.
Ha, that’s spooky! 
Qobuz FLAC 192kHz 24bit
Qobuz, UMe and Zappa Records to Offer Iconic Frank Zappa Albums in Hi-Res for the First Time
The 96/24 is much lower in volume than the 44/16 on that album, I have both version i nQobuz and this might be one of the biggest changes in volume I have heard on “the same” album between different masterings.
Much of that 96/24 “Heaven or Las Vegas” track is mastered with peaks at about -6dBFS, with just a few peaks reaching as high as -3dBFS, leaving I believe plenty of headroom for upsampling D-to-A conversion without risk of Intersample overs.
By the way, the 96/24 version has a measured dynamic range of 127dB while that highly compressed/loudened 44/16 version is 59dB 
As a general observation with digital recording where the maximum attainable level is fixed at 0.0dBfs, the wider the dynamic range the lower the mean volume level must be, ceteris paribus.
First day of the month, and we already have 18 posts. I love seeing this much conversation.
Qobuz 24/96
