: The album was released in multiple digital formats, including 24-bit/96kHz FLAC and 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC , available on platforms like InsideOutMusic's Bandcamp and HDtracks . Mastering & The "Patched" Versions

: Occasionally, early digital versions may contain minor "pops" or digital silence gaps that fans manually repair and distribute as a patched FLAC. Key Album Features Return to Form : After the experimental concept album The Astonishing

"Lossless," Elias insisted. "I want to hear every mechanical click of Mangini’s kit. I want Petrucci’s solos to cut like a laser. I heard the original rip had a jitter in 'Pale Blue Dot.' I need the patched version."

You can hear the separation between John Myung’s driving bass lines and Jordan Rudess’s atmospheric synth pads.

He stood in the middle of the grime-streaked shop, a tear tracing a path through the dust on his cheek. In a world falling apart, he had found ten tracks of absolute order.