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Could one make up a digital duplicate of the Empire 2-LP tracklist from the Arista box?
Nope. The Arista Box is missing the Mynock Cave music, which is edited (horribly) into the opening track of the LP.
-Erik-
Dangit. That's an important cue. How the deuce did it get missed?
ETA: I just reviewed Chris Malone's pdf on the recordings and no mention is made on how the Arista set overlooked it.
I did post on this board a while ago how to recreate the LP program from the Arista set and the Sony 2CD.
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As Erik said on the outset of this thread the content of the CDs of this set is identical in every aspect to the CDs Sony released before. That said, I think that the design of this set is gorgeous. It was reason enough for me to acquire it.
Volker
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Apr 28, 2016 - 6:34 AM
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John-73
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It has to be said Sony's marketing people caused more than a fair amount of confusion amongst would-be buyers. We have the CD set, the vinyl set, the high-res download set, and lastly the lossy iTunes (AAC) & Amazon (MP3) releases.
In a nutshell then from what I've gleaned on various forums over the past few months, the CD set is merely a repackage of the original 2-CD sets for the original trilogy, and the three 1-CD sets for the prequels. No new masterings, and I'm sure I read elsewhere they were bit perfect 'copies' of the original discs. So other than the interview disc (sarcastic whoop!) nothing new here at all, other than the packaging. No audio differences.
The vinyl & high-res sets however have received different transfers. In the case of the original trilogy, they went pack to the original album master tapes (not to be confused with the multitrack masters) and did transfers at 24/192. Unfortunately a little NR was used on both the new vinyl and high-res versions, compared to mint condition original LPs, but they're still rather nice sounding. As for the prequels, they used 24-bit 44.1Khz masters, rather than doing fresh transfers from the analogue tapes (in the case of Episode III, it's only partially recorded to analogue tape anyway, as they ran out of tape sources!). These sound marginally better than the original 16-bit CDs. The vinyl editions of the prequels sound better still, more full-bodied & 'punchy'. Whether that's due to a better source still, or merely the RIAA mastering moves used I'm not sure. I recall watching an interview about this release and Shawn Murphy mentions that they either used less reverb on the prequel vinyl editions, or more... I cannot recall right now. Perhaps someone else has the youtube links? But to my ears the vinyl editions are the best sounding for the prequel scores.
As for the lossy formats, I have zero interest in those, so cannot comment.
I'd love to hear Chris Malone's opinion of these new releases.
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