Album details

Artist Nine Inch Nails
Album Pretty Hate Machine (German repress)
Year 1989
Album DR 13
Min. track DR 12
Max. track DR 16
Track DR
14 12 12 16 13 13 12 13 14 14
Codec Lossless
Source CD
Label Island Records, TVT Records
Catalog number
Bar code 4 007192 613144
Country Germany
Link https://www.discogs.com/release/4504260-Nine-Inch-Nails-Pretty-Hate-Machine
Comment I got this on eBay from Germany because it was cheaper than to buy it locally. Unknowingly i got the most obscure and better version. It arrived damaged, and 3 tracks have skips. I did a partial reconstruction by seamlessly replacing the broken parts with correct first press version. Even if you ignore the reconstructed tracks, all others are more dynamic than the any CD version that's listed on this website. I can't find a torrent of this version online. Listening to it it has better instrument seperation and sounds more punchy. Kind of cool, but kind of a bummer that the versions on streaming just use the worse first press. Head Like a Hole, That's What I Get, and Ringfinger have the sections i reconstructed, everything else is straight from the CD
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log date: 2026-03-28 14:45:36

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Analyzed: Nine Inch Nails / Pretty Hate Machine
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DR         Peak           RMS       Duration Track
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DR14      -0.70 dBFS   -17.07 dBFS      5:02 01-Head Like a Hole
DR12      -0.59 dBFS   -16.51 dBFS      4:42 02-Terrible Lie
DR12      -0.35 dBFS   -13.67 dBFS      3:46 03-Down in It
DR16       0.00 dBFS   -19.23 dBFS      5:51 04-Sanctified
DR13      -1.61 dBFS   -18.98 dBFS      5:52 05-Something I Can Never Have
DR13      -0.18 dBFS   -16.90 dBFS      4:35 06-Kinda I Want To
DR12       0.00 dBFS   -14.35 dBFS      4:04 07-Sin
DR13       0.00 dBFS   -16.42 dBFS      4:31 08-That’s What I Get
DR14       0.00 dBFS   -16.97 dBFS      4:48 09-The Only Time
DR14      -0.01 dBFS   -16.64 dBFS      5:41 10-Ringfinger
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Number of tracks:  10
Official DR value: DR13

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           899 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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