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Title: An otherwise great album marred by bass distortion
Review: The music is great - I agree with everyone else here on that. It's excellent, in fact. My favorite tracks are "Girl", the intro to "Angels", "Homme", and "Time" - Saul Williams in particular is amazing.The sound quality of the album has one fatal flaw though - all the heavy bass notes on the album have distortion induced on them in the recording. I don't know why the engineer did it, but even on a pair of $4000 Infinity Renaissance 90 speakers it sounds like the bass is coming from a cheap pair of Cerwin Vegas with floppy 15" woofers. Other than that, the sound quality is very good. The dynamic range is excellent and the level of detail is very high - better than the vast majority of recordings today.
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