Trying to rip something from Chrono Trigger (and failing)

[ZeaLitY]

SNESMusic's latest spc rip has a few errors, so I'm creating an alpha and omega archive for the Chrono Compendium. "Final Battle" is being a bastard, though. Every rip I've made (on the latest ZSNES, on ZSNES953a, on the latest Snes9x) sounds like this:

http://cc.herograw.org/Zeality/unheadered.spc

Yet the version on the old SNESMusic soundtrack (no longer up for download) soundsl ike this:

http://cc.herograw.org/Zeality/61%20-%2 ... Battle.spc

Sounds better, right? I've been totally frustrated in my attempts to rip a good copy of this song. The ones I've made have a significant volume drop a second after the song begins. Compounding the problem is the fact that I don't own Chrono Trigger. If anyone can,

a.) What's the problem here?
b.) Which sounds closer to Chrono Trigger's?

Thanks.

[Echoecho]

When is this sound drop? They sound the same to me. And I do have this game on SNES. No need to fire it up just to compare. This stuff is burned into my brain. I must have played this game a million times. The spcs sound accurate to me. Perhaps it's the player you're using that's giving you different results? One thing I notice is the first song has no time bit or is set to 3 min, while the second is set to over 200 min.

[Starman Ghost]

I don't know why echoecho can't here it, but I can hear it very clearly. The first one defenitly has a volume drop in the area you described.

For note I'm using Winamp with Alpha-II SPC Player v3.1 with high quality settings.

Edit: Although, it is almost unnoticable with "Like the SNES" settings.

[Echoecho]

I'm not using that player.

[Chronos]

This is an really odd issue your version that you ripped does indeed drop almost 4 Db after the intro...really odd.