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Post #597525

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msycamore
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Star Wars Trilogy LP Preservations (Released)
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Date created
22-Sep-2012, 5:19 PM

7FN said:

Really hope you like how they sound, but bare in mind they are from LPs so you will still get the occasional anomaly here and there. I'm very pleased with how they turned out though, and look forward to hearing what people think, once the discussions on semantics is finished ;)

I've only had the time to listen to the score of ESB so far, and the quality is absolutely superb, extremely nice result and actually a great improvement from your last one which I thought was really good already. It's almost too good as you're hearing many of the limitations of the source more clearly as well. The album master for ESB had a quite weak and slightly distorted sound to it in the highs and the CD counterpart is even worse in this regard. But the result of this is so beautiful it's almost hard to believe it's LP sourced, surprised by how damn clean it is.

I actually often prefer the original film mixes that was mostly used for the Arista set but this is very impressive. One things for sure, I'll never need to play my own copy of the LP anymore. Looking forward to take a listen to the improvements made to your SW. I went with your 24/96 btw I only had your previous one in regular 16/44.1. Thank you 7FN! much appreciated!

7FN said:

Really wish they'd release the definitive Star Wars soundtrack collection in normal and high-res versions (like The Lord of the Rings Complete Editions) mixed by the exceptional team that did The Anthology. That would be a dream come true :)

Agree, we can only hope these scores will be treated as the masterpieces they are someday. In the meantime this fantastic LP preservation set will satisfy my needs. :)