Koi No Yokan Mastering

[Grime_z]

Looks like this discussion will be relevant to Gore, unsurprisingly. A ReplayGain scan of the CD rip gives a -11.32 dB adjustment for the album. 

So, unless we get an HDTracks version, audiophiles will once again be left searching for a pristine vinyl rip to hear the dynamics.

wouldn't this be the "HDTracks" version

http://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/album/gore-deftones/0093624926467

Hmm, good find. That's promising.

The real issue is whether they produced an audiophile-oriented master, separate from the CD master (which is brickwalled and loses a lot of the dynamics).

It's possible the Qobuz hi-fi version is from a separate master; it's also possible, if not likely, that such a master would be what's pressed to vinyl (assuming two masters were made). If so, we're in luck. Personally, I'm really hoping for a digital download of the audiophile version (via Qobuz, HDTracks, or wherever), because vinyl rips have a lot of unnecessary background noise.

If the Qobuz copy is just higher bitrate, but it's the same master used for the CD, it's all but useless though. Given the exact same source material, practically no one can hear the difference between CD quality (16/44) and 24/96, especially with audio equipment affordable by mere mortals.

You will almost certainly gain something as the master will have been done at at least 24bit if not higher and then downsampled to 16bit for CD, given how good the KNY HDtracks version was i'm pretty confident and look forward to hearing this version..