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I'd offer a rebuttal. The LLL sounds vastly superior if you have quality equipment. If I were you I would still probably focus on the stuff I didn't have (Superman is one score out of four, out of one film series) but if you like the original Supes the improvement is something to keep in mind.
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This is absolutely one of the great action/adventure scores of all time; composed and performed at a level the composer/performers would only match intermittently later on.
If you have good portable sound reproduction, and can make your PC/Mac software do quality conversions, there’s no reason not to get this.
The brass reproduction on all these Superman: The Movie soundtrack iterations has always been well done. That was an LSO-with-Eric Tomlinson forte. Now, with the original studio tapes, 192kHz/24-bit transfers, and hi-res mastering, the strings, woodwinds and percussion (and electronics!) get the love, too.
If you love the whole score, it’s an essential purchase.
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Simple question: If you're satisfied with the Blue Box (which I own) is LLL's release an easy pass? I have to be selective in what i purchase. Unless there's an extraordinary difference in sound quality I'll pick up other titles I don't own instead.
I have every release of SUPERMAN going back to the 2-LP set, but to be brutally honest, I really bought the LLL set as a completist, for the joy of ownership. And I don't regret it. I have the money and got my pleasure out of it.
I'm super-glad the digital era has captured those first-generation tapes at high-res, and thus preserved them for all time before the tapes deteriorate. But at the consumer level, for most listeners the Blue Box is just as good. And that goes double for the budget conscious listener who already owns the Blue Box.
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. But at the consumer level, for most listeners the Blue Box is just as good. And that goes double for the budget conscious listener who already owns the Blue Box.
I dunno man, I find the LLL Superman release to be a significant sonic improvement over the already wonderful Blue Box. That's why I got it. Otherwise, I would have let it go by like the releases of the sequels. I have tinnitus and 18 year old budget speakers and it still sounds better.
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Sounds like I need to get this eventually. If not for the improvement in sound quality, for the very fact I've owned every other release of this score from day one including the 8-track! So why stop now?
So the consensus is that you won't regret getting it. I certainly like the set a lot, and I'm glad we got this definitive, "perfected" edition.
My big dilemma as a Blue Box owner, still ongoing after all this time, is whether to get the II-III and IV sets from LLL. It's a clash between the Completist and the Budget Director-- these little voices in my head.
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