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double checked ..
Too many tracks are master distorted!
for example:
http://www29.zippyshare.com/v/59174208/file.html
Holy crap, is THAT the original?! It sounds maybe even worse than what I heard yesterday!
Do you have any idea where this distortion comes from? CD, ripping, MP3 encoding, ???
I just opened this file in a wave editor (CoolEdit), and I do see a bit of clipping, but looking at when it reaches the top I would not expect this much distortion at all - each clipped area is just about 10 (or less) samples long, and in ST in the new filters I assume that you can't hear it if it's less than about 100 samples long. So apparently what I see is not the cause of the distortion - and the distorted spikes that are there are not what we're hearing.
By the way, if you think that THIS track is bad, try 'American Boy' by Estelle. It sounds horrible every time I hear it on the radio, and the original is apparently just as bad.