It doesn't make sense to me for Silva to release this CD with known(?) problems in the source... These problems, I'd think, would be pretty easy to fix using these marvelous things called "computers."

Jonathan Little's expectations from record companies:

I understand that some recordings have masters that have deteriorated over the years (most stuff prior to the 70s, I guess.) But, it seems the recent stuff people have been hearing isn't related to the masters at all...

When I go into Borders/etc. or online to purchase this music, I'm usually paying about $20 a pop after tax or shipping. (Collecting them just like bottle caps, I guess. ) With this rather heafty amount of money for what's typically around a half-hour of music, I expect the compact disc to be free of audio artifacts.

It would also be nice if there were decent liner notes (instead of useless images from the movie) and a picture of the composer (after all, didn't this guy/gal write the music?!?!) It would be interesting to see a Shania Twain album out there without her picture all over it -- but that's another topic.

*rant* *rant* *rant*

Yes indeed there is a slight digital distortion in TRACK 12 "The Monster Tractor" cue, to be honest until it came up here it's never been mentioned since this CD was issued in 1993.

As for the other "Glitches", what you are hearing in many cases is "Room Noise", people moving or instruments making noises while they're being played,etc...

The same thing is also true of "The Challenge", the orchestra was a restless during those sessions and you can hear it.

Also sometimes you can hear the click track bleed through the some of the players headsets as well.

I hope this answers your questions.

However I will say, that the CDR I have of the original Silva release sounded perfectly fine to me. Then again I rarely notice the so-called glitches in most scores.

What I'd like to ask is, how many of you usually hear the background noise or glitches in these scores?