Iron Maiden - | The Essential -2005- -flac- 88

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While some audiophile releases are encoded at 88.2 kHz, The Essential was sourced from standard Red Book CDs. Standard CD audio is natively 16-bit / 44.1 kHz. An "88" tag in this context almost always points to a specific rip catalog number rather than a high-resolution 88kHz studio master. Verifying Accurate CD Rips Leo was a ghost in the machine