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Fascinating.
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Cool! I never got the old Label X releases - excited to check these recordings out.
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Cool! I never got the old Label X releases - excited to check these recordings out.
The team that did these releases originally did an outstanding job and they did capture the essence of the scores and the performances by the Royal Philharmonic are outstanding. Also, I have to make special mention of James Nelson who did a wonderful job remastering these things and really brought out some details which I very much enjoyed.
Ford A. Thaxton
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All of the Royal Philharmonic Star Trek albums, Label X and Varèse Sarabande, had some definite high points. For starters, just getting a new recording of the theme was a lot in late 1985, when the only other option was a first season main title on GNP Crescendo's The Cage/Where No Man Has Gone Before original soundtrack.
In truth, I never picked these up though they were ubiquitous until around 1990. In the new compact disc era, my ears were drawn elsewhere.
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I'm listening to the 24-bit, 48KHz—better than CD quality—ALAC digitals right now.
This is one thing I do like about buying from BSX—that buying the CD also gives instant access to the digitals.
It's nice while waiting for the ever elongating process of international delivery of my preferred format: the CD.
I'm loving the new addition — the theme from Star Trek.
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The team that did these releases originally did an outstanding job and they didn’t capture the essence of the scores and the performances by the Royal Philharmonic are outstanding.
Did you mean they DID capture the essence of the scores? I always thought they did.
Typo on my part, they DID capture the essence of the original scores.
Ford A. Thaxton
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The original digital master recording was 16-bit. So not sure why they’re upsampling it to 24-bit. You cannot put back what isn’t there.
I don't know what they did, but you can improve the home audio result by playing a 16-bit digital recording through an analogue stage and re-digitising it at 24-bit, if the DAC / analogue stage you're passing it through is studio quality rather than home equipment quality.
That won't recover the frequencies that would have had to have been filtered out to capture it at 16-bit, but it can result in a better home audio transfer.
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There were those two Varese Srabande records "Best of Star Trek" Vol I&II performed by the same orchestra but conducted by Fred Steiner, not Tony Bremner. The VS and Label X records complemented each other perfetly. It would be awsome if VS would issue remasters of those recodings, too.
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There were those two Varese Srabande records "Best of Star Trek" Vol I&II performed by the same orchestra but conducted by Fred Steiner, not Tony Bremner. The VS and Label X records complemented each other perfetly. It would be awsome if VS would issue remasters of those recodings, too.
Now a box set with all of these would be so lovely.
Ford A. Thaxton
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Love these suites dearly. 
