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I was thinking of the out of print Gerhardt mono releases on LP and the reissued cd's. Some collectors prefer the sound quality on the original LP's over the reissued cd's even if the cd's have supposedly improved sound quality. I believe these cd's are dolby and not fake stereo. I don't know if there is a distinction between these two terms.
I could never understand why people prefer mono over stereo. I would think that an audiophile would always consider stereo over mono.
The reason why some collectors will sometimes prefer a monaural edition over a stereo one is because either the mono mix may have been superior to the stereo mix in terms of balancing the instruments and clarity of sound, or just because the mono pressing may have been better. So no, an audiophile wouldn't always prefer a stereo LP over a mono one. And, of course, there were plenty of "electronically reprocessed" stereo versions of mono recordings that sounded like garbage (I don't know about the Verita Notes, but most of the time what's done now is the original mono track is given a stereo "presence," not an attempt to actually directionalize the sound).
And, of course, in the case where there are different recordings, the energy of the performance might be enough to offset any benefits of a more modern stereophonic sonics (e.g. Jerome Moross' The Big Country, Elmer Bernstein's The Magnificent Seven). Spirit may trump sound, even for an audiophile.
In the case of the Gerhardt albums, the original stereo mix that was on the LPs was replaced with one processed for Dolby Surround, which derives a center channel from the common information between the left and right channels, and a surround channel from material encoded with a specific phase shift. While this adds dimension to the music when played on a surround-equipped sound system, it also muddies up the original stereo sound somewhat.
I'm not quite sure what remastering means either aside from the fact that it sounds better.
It means that the masters are being transferred again. The quality of a remaster can be a very subjective, ranging from "night and day" revelations to barely noticeable, if at all. It depends on the project, available materials and tastes of the mastering engineers.
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FACE TO FACE really only has one track that makes it worth buying the VERITA cd-
'track 24' Duello'. otherwise the MASK or GDM should satisfy most fans
lot of money to pay for 2 minutes more of music
but hey, i did the same thing to get 'mORTON" from the expanded OUTW
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Ehi amico... c'รจ Sabata, hai chiuso!
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the weakest of the 3 is Return. altho it is annoyingly catchy.
just not to the superb level of the other two.
probably both in the top ten of non morricone italian westerns scores.
cue someone to say that Return is their favourite!
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Hey there, sorry to necro this old thread, but I happened to come across it while I was looking into the Verita Note releases of the Sabata and Return of Sabata soundtracks. Basically I was trying to find out which was better, the GDM release of the soundtracks (GDM 2024) or the Verita Note ones (VQCD-10076 & VQCD-10077.) I've been told before that GDM was typically the best option when it came to soundtrack releases for Spaghetti Westerns, but I've also heard that Japanese releases tend to be good as well.
While I'm uncertain about the actual quality of the releases I did notice that the Verita Note releases featured 21 tracks for Sabata and 18 for Return of Sabata while the GDM release only had 19 for Sabata and 10 for Return of Sabata.
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