This DXC album sounds flatter to me (especially noticeable on Bloody Tears). I actually wonder if you'd hear the same difference playing the PSP port of the game itself vs. the original PC Engine version. Granted, the compressed audio from the PSP is always gonna lose out to uncompressed Redbook, but I'm thinking about the mastering. Maybe they flattened it out because they knew people would be listening to it on the go instead of from their home setup?
Overall if you had the choice I'd go with the 1993 album even though it's missing the handful of non-Redbook tracks. DXC has some good remixes (Moonfight and Poison Mind are both fantastic) but those don't win out over having the full Vampire Killer/Bloodlines OST by a long shot.
Last edited by Aifread; Aug 11, 2020 at 01:46 AM.
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