'It sounds much better than the original cd versions to me.'
Then that's because you like the crayons they used to colour with. Nothing wrong with that but the different EQ job IS there. I prefer the clean, flatter sound of the originals with the original degrees of reverberation and EQ'ing.
I'm set up to a/b almost anything. I've got a great Yamaha amp and superb Paradigm speakers - which don't add too much colour. I can go from blu-rays to DVD's to VHS to laserdiscs pretty easily back and forth and any audio combination. I a/b'd the new Gerhardt's with the old - and prefer the old because of the artificial EQ'ing of the new. The 3 I checked have been run through a processor - likely one of those new jobs which are supposed to 'analog-ize' digital recordings (sometimes it works but not on recordings that already sounded great). If you had a really cold, austere sound that you wanted to make sound a little more fiery and warm, yes but these sound like they've been coloured by sonic crayons. The audio equivalent of colorizing.
What exactly are you comparing? Sounds like your tests relate more to the (colored-sounding) Dolby Surround-labeled CDs versus the couple of even older CDs that were originally released without surround encoding. The new (yellow/orange packaging) CDs are far better than the previous lot.
If 'The spectacular world of classic film scores' album contained music that was originally left off the other albums in the series, is it possible that there might be some more unreleased recordings?.
I have some of the remastered Gerhardt recordings and to me it's day and night in how much better they sound compared to the old ones... Call me a colorful guy, but I like how I can hear better detail, instrument separation and a bigger sound field which puts you in front row seats of the National Philarmonic Orchestra. Highly recommended.
Got about a good bunch of these courtesy a friend from here. The Sound quality sans the Surround Stereo is a revelation. This is perhaps the finest of the film music treasures we have ever got. Truly wonderful.
Got about a good bunch of these courtesy a friend from here. The Sound quality sans the Surround Stereo is a revelation. This is perhaps the finest of the film music treasures we have ever got. Truly wonderful.
As mentioned in the FSM article by Record man about SEA HAWK: This was the first CD version of The Sea Hawk, a rare release because it included additional music left off the original LP, and added in some music from other Korngold releases to make for longer suites. This is not in Dolby Surround Sound.
This version was somehow omitted from the new RED SEAL re-issue series. Clearly an oversight by the Sony producers who stuck to the LP configuration. Luckily I have the above mentioned pressing.
