skyjedi2005 said:

Are not there limitations in a academy monaural track even if it is capped at the highest possible resolution and bitrate for sound.

Does not optical in general have limitations because the audio is on the print itself?

Nowadays if they wanted to they could reproduce the sound as exactly as heard in the recording studio off the first gen master.

Though Lucas has not done that.

The blu ray is a poor imitation of the original 77 mix in any of its forms.

Then again out of the few films from the 70's i want to own on blu ray like Superman, Star Wars, or star trek none of them have the original 6 track 70mm mix.

do you have a surround sound system properly configured?

i don't know too many people that do. i'm an audiophile,

but listen mostly to music.

i'm sure there are videophiles here that do, but overall

most people don't. i'm sure the stereo soundtracks are

the most listened to.

besides the nostalgia and novelty factor, who listens

to the mono version mostly, and what quality does it

really need to be? its not that good of a qualilty in

the original..

i'm sure hairy_hen could tell you all about the differences

and fixes in the 4.1 and 5.1 surround versions and

remasters. some people like having the newer mixes

to sound more impressive.

i'll stick to the stereo 35mm versions.

later

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