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Interesting, I still haven't gotten to A Matter..., it's somewhere in the "back" of my CD changer :) Actually, I haven't listened to it much either, I usually take a couple of years to "suck up" a new Maiden release before it finds its way into my regular rotation  :S

Zare, thank you for taking the time to explain a bit more in depth, I pretty much suck at that :) Of course, how noticeable this is depends a lot on what you're using to listen to it. I have a secondary computer around with some low end Logitech system connected to it(Z6-something I think)...

It's not that it's "bad", as in a bad radio signal or something. It's that you lose the "punch" of sounds that should have them, of course a snare will always sound like a snare for example, but the sound won't give you the punch that it should. The guy in the Youtube video explained it far...

As far as I remember, his involvement in the mixing began before that, around No Prayer or Fear of the Dark somewhere, maybe even earlier. Which is not to say he has the final say in what is ultimately sent to the presses. I have a very hard time imagining he would be thrilled about the prospect...

Yeah, they've been doing this for a while. I still haven't made it so far as to NotB, but I did have a peek at Seventh Son as well, and that was pretty good. But mostly anything(Maiden or not) made after 2000 looks like the tracks I listed or even worse. I bought Chapter V by Hammerfall a while...

Would I be overly naive if I figured Maiden would be big enough to influence how their albums are mastered? The reason I ask is the way their recent albums have been butchered, as seems to be customary these days. I've spent some time recently, ripping my CD collection into FLAC files, and I...