Hans Zimmer And Lisa Gerrard ‎– Gladiator (Music From The Motion Picture)

Clean pressing and low surface noise. But I’m not getting much if any of a sound stage. There is a compression and flatness to the sound. The Battle and other related tracks should sound big and epic but instead sound like average quality mp3s. Disappointed.

I did enjoy this soundtrack when it first came out, but the cd master, at least, is terribly compressed and clips often.

Music is superb but this 2017 LP is too compressed sounding with limited dynamics. Very average sound quality, may as well have bought the CD. Shame, as Mastered at Abbey Road.

Good pressing but very quiet, it's surprising how much I have to pump up the volume. 1st track for instance is almost dead quiet. The main "problem" comes from the original soundtrack itself as many tracks are quieter than other. The most audible tracks are the epic themes, the ones similar to action/adventure scenes of Pirates Of The Caribbean :)

Can we confirm this is indeed a new master (Sean Magee at Abbey Road) vs the original that was done at BG ?

Better than the reissue imo which i purchased hoping to use the org less, no complaints with my copy.

Sounds good, but like other said give it a good clean/s . Most liekly due to it being in paper sleeves.

Quite possibly the most fun you can have with classical type music. Zimmer's best work. I've listened to this hundreds, possibly thousands of times. My one and only disappointment it was never released in 24/96 format. Deserves far treatment, but like the digital birds and rose petals in the movie perhaps no additional resolution can be retrieved from the master itself. None the less take it to the gym while you're pumping iron. You might make a bunch of new friends.

For those fans/audiophiles hoping for improved quality over the standard CD release, you'll be sorely disappointed. Akin to the great 'Blu Spec' CD marketing coup of Japan, this Chinese release boasts a '24k Gold coated cd with 24bit digital transfer from the masters. To these eyes and ears and several industry reference audio editing studio software packages, I could not find any improvement over the standard U.S and UK. CD releases either aurally or by full frequency spectrum analysis of each cue. In summary, looks nice, but clearly a gimmick to serve that limited market. Possibly explains why this release was not adopted for further International consumption, even given it's obvious popularity.

Fantastic quality after I did some cleaning (it had quite a few clicks and pops beforehand)