Well i finally had chance to sit down and listen to CD's 1 & 2 today (sorry it's taken me so long ABC but it's a bit of a madhouse here at the moment).

What an amazing piece of work you have done here ABC. I've never heard this soundtrack sound so good. The whole sound feels so rich and alive. instruments that had been almost buried for years with the latest CD releases are back where they should be.

Now i will admit that i just had to listen to it again but this time i enabled the crystalizer function on my soundblaster X-Fi Fatality soundcard and my god it was like listening to it again for the first time. if anyone has this feature on their pc then just try it with this enabled and you can see just how clear ABC has made this soundtrack. Many times this function, while making everything sound amazing, also has the downside of showing up mastering problems and other problems within the recording. But no. Not with this one. yes you could hear the odd crackle now and then but only as a distant sound and i almost didn't notice this

there was a slight flaw (noticed without the crystalizer enabled) on "main title" at about 2:42 that i mentioned to ABC about where the stereo field seems to shift but loses some of the left channel for a second or so then it kicks back in. I don't know if this is on the original source or not because i haven't heard that in a long time. But really this is nothing.

Thank you ABC for all your hard work in giving us this amazing piece of work.

p.s. is CD 3 finished because i would love to be able to listen to this

p.p.s i did try replying to you a while back but it wouldn't let me because it said i wasn't on your friends list. i hope you don't think i was ignoring your messages

thanks :)