The Who - Who’s Next SDE series no. 30 (January 17th, 2025)

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I know they did use some kind of demixing for "The Song is Over", but that was with most of the instruments available as separate tracks. Taking apart a finished production might've been seen as too daunting at that point.
 
On the box set Blu-Ray, both the remixed stereo and 5.1 seem to have had some limiting applied (probably by Astley as you suggest) whereas the Atmos was untouched. Is the 5.1 audio any different on the standalone?
I've just had a look, the 5.1 is different too! The limiting is applied as it was in the box set except on My Wife! I'll have to do a proper side-by-side mix comparison, but it could potentially mean a tweaked mix for My Wife only!

Further, the 5.1 mixes of Baba O'Reilly through to the "new" My Wife have all been normalised to 0dB, whilst the remainder of the material has been normalised to -6dB to match the Atmos levels, making for a very uneven listen at the halfway point.

The bonus tracks appear the same on both discs.
 
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