SilverWook said:

OHMSS sounds wonderful on LD! It was like hearing it for the first time. A couple sound effects actually startled me.

It is! I recently re-watched this about a week ago and it truly does sound spectacular.

captainsolo said:

Krycek87 said:

Received the Criterion Goldfinger yesterday. Is it just me or did this have the mono theme song? Anyway, I'll begin experimenting in a few days on ripping that commentary track.

Yes, it's the only release that still does. Everything since has the theme song in stereo. The new mono tracks may have a mono theme but I can't be sure.

I might as well preserve the Criterion's mono mix too. I'll check my Goldfinger Blu-ray and check if it does have use a mono mix for the song.

And the 5.1 mixes on the first three Bond flicks are not that good, it's not even exclusive to those three. Most of the films 5.1 mixes are just bad...

After I got my Bond 50, I sampled between the lossy mono and the lossless 5.1 and I usually stuck with the mono. The 5.1 nearly muted the score and the sound effects were harsh and artificial. This is also the case once we reach the Dolby Surround age. Lossy or not, the original mixes still trump the new high age "remixes."

In this day and age, with Blu-ray discs now having 50 gigs of memory, it is a shame we can't get the original audio mixes to many movies, and if we do, it's in lossy form. It's not like a lossless PCM or DTS-HD MA/Dolby TrueHD would take that much more space.