I'm listening to it right now from the latest release, the Miles Showell remaster (at Abbey Road Studios), which was released in Japan on SHM-CD. And you can hear that the modern idiom of remastering older rock material is changing. Like Damian Lipinski, Showell led the sound down the band, saturated the bass and opened up its midrange. But he opened it up not by making it lighter, as it is - in general - darker, but by higher resolution.

The feet prepared by Paweł demonstrated these treatments perfectly, playing in a dense, saturated manner, with a brilliantly differentiated midrange. Set far in the mix, Sting's vocals were therefore clear and corresponded well with the guitar, given with a phase shift, and with the synthesizer, winning a distinctive phrase underneath. The reverb was shorter than with the Divine Acoustics feet, but that's what they differ in the first place – perspective.

FAA's feet are also smoother. Something I've pointed out before, that is depth and plasticity, are evident and in this comparison. But it is also here that one can hear that the Polish feet treat the sound in a more delicate way, as if they were trying harder to connect all the sounds together. The “sea” sound achieved by the recording of the moving foil that opens ˻ 1 ˺ Pleasure Principle, a track from JARRE's album Geometry of Love were thus more believable, less “made.” The American alloys showed the mechanics of this sound more clearly, which gave a more precise picture, but it was the 15th Anniversary Ceramic Disc Hybrid that made them an integral part of the recording, not something separate.

Also, the bass in Wrapped Around Your Finger by The Police seemed more vivid to me with the Polish feet. It was not deeper, but it had a very nice timbre and was, let me repeat that, fluid. And I guess this feature, that is, fluidity, would be the most important in this comparison. These are designs that bring a kind of “thrust” to the sound. What I mean is that any, any song, whether recorded well or not quite, as long as it's good music and good production, sounds good with them.

It's not about making things more similar, as Franc Audio Accessories' feet are very resolving. It's about bringing out from the music that, which connects all sounds, from the very bottom, and it is strong and saturated with them, to the high top, “golden” rather than “iron”. If the snare strikes emphatically, and this is how it was recorded on this album, it will strike emphatically when played. But it will not be something unpleasant, or - even less so - detached from the rest of the music.

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