I also keep TDK on vinyl sealed is that i already have it on CD. Didn't make sense to open it except for those you mentioned. Now, I'd kind of like to!

I really wish they would do that more as collectors items for high interest scores at Varese Sarabande. it would be killer if I could find the Raiders DCC Vinyl disc sealed. (Unsealed wouldn't be a problem, either.)

I plan on trying to get a copy of Star Trek: The Motion Picture on vinyl as soon as I can find one.

By the way, just for giggles, I did a Batman Begins remix of the music. It's not perfect, and I'm not sure about the copyright angle, but if you want to hear it, let me know.

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I bought with the idea that I would keep it sealed for collector purposes. At present, i don't own a turntable, though I'm thinking about getting one, seeing as how I own both the Dark Knight and 300 in this manner.

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Originally posted by Justin:
Got 3 other gems today on Vinyl at Half Priced Books for hella cheap. Superman: The Movie, Walt Disney's Fantasia, and Chariots of Fire! All for right at 25.

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Originally posted by Kirkinson:
I understand why people would want to listen to vinyl records of analog recordings, and I understand why people would want an LP for collector's purposes, but what advantage could there be to actually listening to a digital recording transferred to an analog format?

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Originally posted by Swashbuckler:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=1 face=arial>quote:</font><HR size=1>Originally posted by Kirkinson:
[b]I understand why people would want to listen to vinyl records of analog recordings, and I understand why people would want an LP for collector's purposes, but what advantage could there be to actually listening to a digital recording transferred to an analog format?<HR size=1></BLOCKQUOTE>

Because the sonic properties of vinyl as a delivery medium will often give music a warmer, more organic sound.[/B]

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Originally posted by Ge0rge:

It's true, but I don't see the point on waking up the dead vynil, when there is so huge PR for Blu-ray...

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ANYWAYS - I listened to The Dark Knight Vinyl and I am impressed, but not overly so. The sound is, indeed, warmer and the instruments stand out much better than the CD. Those wanting the overly done bass should stick with the CD for sure. I don't mean this in a bad thing. But from my comparison while having the CD play and the LP playing the same tracks and flipping back and forth between phono and CD, surprisingly the CD's bass is thicker, but almost TOO thick. It comes across too boomy and you almost lose depth to the music if that makes sense. The LP maintains that bass as if it were a concert and you FELT it rather than feeling like your head is going to explode. It's definitely mastered differently so that's a plus. I would only recommend for those who are highly sensative to noticing differences though. As this isn't as super obvious as some LP's are compared to their CD offspring

What does Blu-Ray have to do with vinyl?[/B]<HR size=1></BLOCKQUOTE>

I mean it's possible to master the uncompressed 96khz+ sound, that is comparable quality to vynil, plus the latter isn't capable of being multi channel. Sorry for offtopic.

Well, I have myself been quite taken with the uncompressed or lossless soundtracks on my Blu-ray discs, and would love to hear music delivered in this form. The original intent to do something like that was DVD-Audio, however, which was pretty much a bust.

Furthermore, pricing would be something of an issue given the capacity (for example, you could fit all of the Lord of the Rings CRs plus the original soundtrack CDs on one discs, and have both stereo and 5.1 options).

However... the sonics of a Blu-ray disc (whatever the delivery format, PCM, Dolby TruHD or DTS-HD Master Audio) will still differ from those of vinyl... it's not really so much quality that draws people to vinyl, but what a recording sounds like in that format.

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Originally posted by Swashbuckler:
I mean it's possible to master the uncompressed 96khz+ sound, that is comparable quality to vynil, plus the latter isn't capable of being multi channel. Sorry for offtopic.

Well, I have myself been quite taken with the uncompressed or lossless soundtracks on my Blu-ray discs, and would love to hear music delivered in this form. The original intent to do something like that was DVD-Audio, however, which was pretty much a bust.

Furthermore, pricing would be something of an issue given the capacity (for example, you could fit all of the Lord of the Rings CRs plus the original soundtrack CDs on one discs, and have both stereo and 5.1 options).

However... the sonics of a Blu-ray disc (whatever the delivery format, PCM, Dolby TruHD or DTS-HD Master Audio) will still differ from those of vinyl... it's not really so much [b]quality that draws people to vinyl, but what a recording sounds like in that format.

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Originally posted by Justin:
surprisingly the CD's bass is thicker, but almost TOO thick. It comes across too boomy and you almost lose depth to the music if that makes sense.

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