Ween - The Pod -1991- -flac- ~upd~ -

Gene Ween’s bass playing on The Pod is less about pitch and more about pressure . On "Pork Roll Egg and Cheese," the bass distorts the physical speaker cone. A 320kbps MP3 cuts frequencies below 20kHz and smears transient response, turning that glorious mud into a weak thud. FLAC retains the full frequency spectrum, so you feel the bass in your sternum.

The thick, sludgy bass on "Dr. Rock," the high-pitched, piercing falsetto on "She Fucks Me," and the cavernous, tape-saturated drums on "Right to the Ways and the Rules of the World" rely on a full frequency spectrum. An MP3 compression often flattens this dynamic range, turning a rich, three-dimensional sludge into a two-dimensional fuzz. Ween - The Pod -1991- -FLAC-