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Originally Posted by Nepharus
... There are some soundtracks/tunes I love regardless of their production but boy do they get shredded when I fly them on my sound system... (One outstanding example off the top of my head, Tamiya Terashima's electric orchestrals: love them to death and back, but they sound squashed. Beyond that I'm a little scared to admit 'squashedness' is also why I don't listen to Chrono Cross very much, although I have to say I haven't tried that one on my sound system before.)
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I think a lot of Playstation music is compressed. It really shows on good sound systems. For Chrono Cross, I tend to find the guitar-based tracks fare much better than the orchestral-style tracks (or anything that features a lot of strings). Is one reason I never listen to Legend of Mana or Cyber Org anymore. And as much as I love the first Suikoden soundtrack and the samples it uses, I find the music very thin sounding...most likely, it was shrunk to fit on the disc.