I feel like this topic is really necessary! Instead of us doing a new topic for each single a couple of times per month, this could be a great replacement for all of them. We'll post all the latest updates about new streaming releases, remastered videos and, knock-on-wood, future physical releases of singles. Bring it on!
So, I've compared this release of YCD - Single Edits from Qobuz to the tracks from the 1987 Promo CD. I took a very fast look at them at Spek, and ran them through Audacity to compare them. To my ears they don't sound bad at all, but, quite curiously to me, they are not exactly the same files.
All of them run at the same speed through the whole thing, which indicate they come from the same master, but they sound a little bit... tweaked - all the tracks from the 2022 release are cutoff at a