If you’ve been surviving on YouTube rips or the compressed In Your Room box set, seek this out. The frequency response on the hi-hats alone is worth the hunt.
Open a FLAC in or Audacity (spectrogram view). A true lossless rip from vinyl will show smooth frequency roll-off above 20 kHz, often with noise present above 22 kHz (the vinyl’s surface noise). If you see a hard cut at 16 kHz or 20 kHz, it’s a transcode. yazoo the 12 inch mixes 1993 flac up by hot