Close Encounters of the Third Kind is visionary director Steven Spielberg's
now classic exhilarating 1977 science fiction film. The masterful score was
composed, conducted and produced by John Williams. The soundtrack is a mixture
of eerie suspense and tremendous emotive bombast, complete with hair-raising
moments and the great big playful musical conversation between the mothership
and the humans. Williams' "five-tone" motif for Close Encounters has become
ingrained in popular culture (the five tones are used by scientists to communicate
with the visiting spaceship as a mathematical language as well as being incorporated into the film's signature theme).

The album was a critical and commercial success, peaking at #17 on the US
Billboard album chart and reaching #40 in the UK. John Williams won two Grammy
Awards for his score (Best Original Film Score and Best Instrumental Composition).
A disco version of the five-note motif, though not part of the original score, is
included on the disc as a bonus track making this CD an essential acquisition for
collectors and movie and music fans.

Produced by John Williams
Mastered by Steve Hoffman at Stephen Marsh Mastering

PS3 SACD Ripper / Ripped to ISO / DSD Files Extracted with Scarletbook / Temporary DSD-WAV conversion with Weiss Saracon / Gain Checked and corrected / Trimmed & Batch converted to FLAC (24bit-88.2kHz)

Please PM (http://forums.ffshrine.org/private.php?do=newpm&u=477848) for link.

What a gem!

No word, you are the best!

Wow, thanks a lot!

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Nice upload!
Thank you very much, Mr Merrick!

AWESOME share, thanks!!!

Wowaaaaa!!!... Thousand thanks Mr.!!!... :)

Thank you

Thank you for the sharing.

Well... these old ears will not hear all that goodies anyway :) but thanks a lot for another nice post

Thank you very much, a superb score and a great share :)

Thanks for the upgrade.

Wow... Amazing.

Thank you so much for this. My father bought this on vinyl when the film came out!

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Great stuff !!

Link received. Thanks for the share.

Should be listened on an high end system to really appreciate the high res audio.

I use a Rotel RSP 1570 who accepte up 24bit / 192khz + RBM 1575 class D and B&W 805 Diamond 2 , the DAC of this audio processor is pretty good.

Thanks mr merrick :)

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Phenomenal! Thank you!

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I lost these files unfortunately. Could somebody please re-up this?

I second that re-up to anyone here in this thread. Kindly appreciate it. ;-)

Me too :-D

I'm working on the re-up. I'll let you know when it's ready.

OK, how about this? Is the link good?

https://mega.nz/#F!zdNzEToZ!KoPdSvhflasbI7pHNjJnxw

Thanks to Mr. Merrick for sharing the files in the first place.

Thank You Mr. Merrick & oyeluque :-D

Very interesting, thanks both to Mr. Merrick and Oyeluque for this!

Many thanks mr_merrick (OP) for your hard work & sharing and oyeluque for the re-up of this wonderful score by John Williams: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (24bit-88kHz SACD) ;-) Rep's given to both. Rated thread: excellent.

Thanks oyeluque for the reup!!!

Thank you!

Thank you for the re-up!

You're welcome. ;-) I'll keep it up for a few more days.

Thanks to the original uploader, and of course to the re-uploader, too.

It is me, or the sound of some tracks is quite odd? (I just heared the track 10, and music "comes and goes", some kind of strange effects). On the other hand, track 08 "The conversation" is almost monoaural?

Thank you so much for the re-up, oyeluque!!!!... :)
I it had not arrived to download from the mr merricks link.

Thanks to the original uploader, and of course to the re-uploader, too.

It is me, or the sound of some tracks is quite odd? (I just heared the track 10, and music "comes and goes", some kind of strange effects). On the other hand, track 08 "The conversation" is almost monoaural?

Not sure what you mean with track 10. It sounded fine to me.

Track 8 doesn't have the stereo separation of other tracks, but it may be the way the music is intended to sound, as it is quite different form the other tracks in terms of composition.

I've heard track 10 using headphones, and from [3:10] to [4:15] it sound quite strange to me. May be using a home cinema system the soundstage remains stable, but with headphones the sound goes from a location to another... I will test it with my home cinema this weekend. But this is not a 5.1 multichannel SACD, it is stereo, right?

(BTW, headphones are AKG 712 and I'm using a headphone DAC/amp; so, there are not the headphones).

OK, how about this? Is the link good?

https://mega.nz/#F!zdNzEToZ!KoPdSvhflasbI7pHNjJnxw

Thanks to Mr. Merrick for sharing the files in the first place.

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Thank youuuuuuuuu !!!!

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Thanks for the link! +Rep too.

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I got the link, Thank you very much :)

Link received, thank you very much :)

Link received. Thank you!

Link received. Thanks again and merry Chritsmas.

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Is it in stereo or 5.1?

Link well received and reputation point given, thank you very much! :D