poorley masterd CDs???

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i think i have run accross a badley masterd CD... or CDs...

i have just bout the ELO boxed 3 disc set called "flashback"...

upon ripping the songs to computer as wav files and campairing the sound qualety to my the DLed mp3 vershions of the songs, i noteced that the song "dont bring me down" sounds muffled , lack of bass/ lack of depth and just sound like its playing on a cheep mono radio or phone hold music compaird to the 222kb/s MP3 wich sounds much better and was suposedley made from a differant album called "pure 70s" . i thot maybe i ripped the song badley so i burned my mp3 vershon to cdrw and compaired my burnt mp3 to the origanal pressed vershion i just bout...same story...i think the CD is poorly mastered.

am i right and dose anyone els have this boxed set and can you hear what im talking about?

has anyone els ever run into a pooly mastered CD???

or could the master tapes have degraded so bad that that is all the better it can sound now?

this ones a head scratcher...