From Classic Records:

"MASTERTAPE SOUND IN YOUR LISTENING ROOM

The Classic 24/96 Digital Audio Disc DAD is designed to be an audiophile musical reference. The process starts with the encoding of an analog signal from a live microphone feed or more commonly from an analog master tape. The highly sophisticated Analog to Digital converter (A to D) samples the analog signal 96,000 times per second (96kHz) and assigns a numerical value to each sample point. The 96kHz sampling rate is more than twice the 44,100 (44.1kHz) sampling rate used on standard CD's. The numerical value assigned at 96kHz - about every 10.4 microseconds - is stored as a 24 bit digital word. The significance of a 24 bit digital ward is that there are 16.8 million different potential values for each 24 bit word! By contrast there are only 65,536 different potential values for a 16 bit word on a normal CD. The additional 8 bits on a DAD allow for over 16 million additional voltage values to represent the original analog signal. Further, 24 bit resolution offers 144 dB of dynamic range from the softest to the loudest musical note. At 144 dB of dynamic range we greatly exceed even the dynamic range available on the world's finest analog tape machines. For the first time in the history of digital audio we can provide Master Tape Sound (MTS).

After the analog signal is encoded, the resulting 24 bit/96kHz digital data stream is stored on a large computer hard disk. The raw data is then transferred to a post production facility for "authoring" - a process that results in the creation of a digital tape called a DLT that is sent to the disc manufacturing plant. At the plant, the DLT is used to make a "glass master" which produces stampers that are used to injection mold the DAD discs. In all, the process is quite a bit more involved than making CD's but we hope that you will appreciate the extra effort when you hear what this technological wonder has to offer."


Please PM (http://forums.ffshrine.org/private.php?do=newpm&u=477848) for links. Requests in the thread may be missed and/or ignored.

Total: 1.39GB

Credit due to Constantine1989 for the awesome cover

-- Enjoy --

Wow, man!

thanks for going to the trouble to upload such a massive file!

No problem. More (bigger) files on the way. And Sinus, thank you so much for the Inception Audiophile Edition. Your hard work made me decide to start sharing a few albums in my collection. Recording Sessions or not, this will be my ultimate (quality) reference for Inception.

I've had this album for a few years.

The audio is indeed better than the original CD release, except for some clipping in the final few seconds of "A Call To Arms".

The disc itself is a DVD, about 1.43 GB (if I remember correctly) in size and when you put it into a DVD player, there is no menu so the music just starts playing like a CD would, and you can advance to the next track since it's just a video title with the tracks as chapters. The on screen graphic is generic album and track information, so if you don't want to turn your television on to play the disc, you don't have to which is nice.

If anyone were to buy this now, it would fetch a ridiculous amount of money, but when I got it it was in 2007 from the Classic Records site directly and was only $15!

Keep in mind, if you download this you wont hear the difference in quality unless you have 24 bit output from your audio source. So if your computer doesn't have 24 bit output through your sound card or other DAC, you might as well be playing the original 16 bit CD.

some clipping in the final few seconds of "A Call To Arms".

Sadly.

It's more of a bassy distortion which can also be heard slightly at 0:19. At least it's not a ripping error.

:(

You're right, the disc is a DVD with 24/96 WAV. I was thinking of posting the ISO itself but deleted it after converting to FLAC for my Colorfly (http://www.custom-cable.co.uk/headphone-amplifiers/colorfly/colorfly-pocket-hifi-c4-pro-32gb-24bit-192khz-upsampling-music-player.html) player.

Incidentally, there's a copy of this on eBay (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/James-Horner-Glory-Soundtrack-DVD-Audio-DVDA-D-A-D-NEW-/110668784679?pt=US_Movies_Other_Formats&hash=item19c45fa427) that's apparently a double-sided disc. 24/96 DVD on one side and 24/192 MLP DVD-Audio on the other. I asked the seller for further info but didn't get a reply. Tempting, but at that price, I think I'll keep my original DAD and vinyl copy.

24/192 MLP DVD-Audio
if it's the same master, for me it's close to meaningless.

but keep those hi-res releases coming! :-)

Apropos hi-res: mr_merrick, did you see my Akira upload?

Incidentally, there's a copy of this on eBay (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/James-Horner-Glory-Soundtrack-DVD-Audio-DVDA-D-A-D-NEW-/110668784679?pt=US_Movies_Other_Formats&hash=item19c45fa427) that's apparently a double-sided disc. 24/96 DVD on one side and 24/192 MLP DVD-Audio on the other. I asked the seller for further info but didn't get a reply. Tempting, but at that price, I think I'll keep my original DAD and vinyl copy.

Such a thing was never made so I wouldn't trust it as being legitimate.

Funny enough most seem to think this DAD is a DVD-audio disc, only it's not and doesn't have the compatibility issues DVD-audio does, which is obviously nice. :)

The distorted bass has nothing to do with any ripping, as the DAD itself has this. I have not downloaded these files so I'm basing that on my copy of the album itself.

For the curious, this is what the on-screen graphic looks like:



The title changes from track to track, but that's all. Not much to see!

Such a thing was never made so I wouldn't trust it as being legitimate.



I suspect the seller may have ripped the production method from another release perhaps. There's always a risk that it's simply upsampled to 192kHz. I gave my original CD copy to a friend and never had a chance to compare the two. Quite sad really as it was the first CD I ever bought. Is the bass distortion on Track 1 on the CD as well?

@Sinus, no I didn't. Will have to look for that one. Cheers!

Is the bass distortion on Track 1 on the CD as well?

No, it's unique to the DAD release.

Keep in mind, if you download this you wont hear the difference in quality unless you have 24 bit output from your audio source. So if your computer doesn't have 24 bit output through your sound card or other DAC, you might as well be playing the original 16 bit CD.

Better to use lossless stereo pass-through SPDIF. Sound cards meddling with it converting to analog is sloppy.

I'd like to download this, but I simply don't have the room. I need a big hard drive.. Hell, the Lord of the Rings sets are using 18 or 19 gigabytes of my disk.

Thank you!!!

Still have this? Can't get the links to load.

Still have this? Can't get the links to load.

You won't. multiupload.com is defunct.

multiupload.nl is the replacement.

...

Unavailable in america. :(

When I uploaded my "Custom Complete Score", it was the DAD version of the album I used for all the album-specific tracks.

I remember the first time I saw the DAD album in a store:

It was back in 2001 or so, meaning six some-odd years before I ordered it off the label's site. I didn't have the regular soundtrack CD at the time so I was really itching to grab this version. Only problem was its price which I'll never forget: $62.99. Yeah....no. No thanks. It's not eBay and its thousands of dollars or a promo, but still. At the time the cost was not remotely justified.

Unavailable in america. :(

Ah shit. Should've used Peeje. Ok, give me a day or two and I'll sort it.

Ah shit. Should've used Peeje. Ok, give me a day or two and I'll sort it.

It's fine, bayfiles works...probably he was using jdownloader and didn't see it...

Thank, mr_merrick.

Thank you very much.

thank you for this!
Bayfiles for 1-4 are still up. The rest for 1-4 are down though.
3 links active for part 5.

Using JDownloader 2.0 BETA (with regular updates).

Wonderful!

can anyone re-up this? even if I change bayfiles.com to bayfiles.net it's really hard to download (jdownloader here shows it as not found and the download stops every time when it reaches around 50mb)

New links added to first post.

Since this thread was resurrected, and I noticed this old post from 2011:

"Keep in mind, if you download this you wont hear the difference in quality unless you have 24 bit output from your audio source. So if your computer doesn't have 24 bit output through your sound card or other DAC, you might as well be playing the original 16 bit CD"

It made me wonder....does ANYONE play music on their stereo / surround systems anymore with real speakers instead of shitty logitech / insert name here computer speakers anymore?

Or am I one of the few proud holdouts?

It made me wonder....does ANYONE play music on their stereo / surround systems anymore with real speakers instead of shitty logitech / insert name here computer speakers anymore?

Or am I one of the few proud holdouts?

Few..., nah "I am Legion, for we are many" proofs are all around i.e. Head-Fi.org - Headphone forums and reviews for audiophiles (http://www.head-fi.org/), Audio Asylum -- Audio Reviews, Audiophile Forums and Stereo Reviews (http://www.audioasylum.com/) and go on and on....

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few...but the few know better... Studio monitors all the way

I do not like to go into offtop, but let me use great quote from one movie. "There are dinner jackets and there are Dinner Jackets". Studio monitor is a question of taste, profesion and hearing, but it always depend to what you are connecting them. Anyhow PMC are the good ones for average audiophile usage.

5x PMC AML2's are as closely fitted to a dinner jacket as I'm gonna get. I don't have the room for the bigger PMC guns, as much as I love the IB2's.

I have forseen it;) PMC are Dinner Jackets indeed. Gongrats on good setup.

Well thank you. :) I would surely hope that people listening to high-res audio would be doing so on an actual system of some type and not through their iTunes / winamp player with two desktop speakers and a so-called 'sub'. While I don't have high-end equipment (I have much older speakers that are a bit oversized but they do me plenty!) I do appreciate what room-filling sound can do and never play music on my computer. Editing, sure. Listening...too old fashioned, I guess.

Amazing! Thanks for the new links and for this ultra high resolution release. It sounds breathtaking! Thanks again!

Thank you :)

thanks a lot for the new links!

In appreciation for this amazing release, here is a custom cover I made. Though I like the stock cover, it's always good to have an alternate! This along with other covers will be posted in the custom covers thread as well. Enjoy!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maklarenvisuals/8716152403/" title="Glory: Original Motion Picture Score by Maklaren Visuals, on Flickr">

Great stuff. Thank you.

Great Thanks!

Unfortunately Bayfiles is down and the Turbobit links are dead. Any chance of seeing a re-upload somewhere? I'd love to listen to this in this higher resolution.

Unfortunately Bayfiles is down and the Turbobit links are dead. Any chance of seeing a re-upload somewhere? I'd love to listen to this in this higher resolution.

According to Jdownloader 2's linkgrabber there are a number of links that are still active. I picked the bitshare one for the 1st part, and bugger me IT WORKED.

Re-upload not needed.

I tried the Part 1 bayfiles link as well, and bugger me THAT WORKED TOO.

Correction, I tried it now and was successful with notably BitShare and SendMyWay. This is an awsome upload and I can't wait to hear it on my system. I use a customized computer for playback on my high end system. I'm always on the lookout for higher quality uploads like this as with the proper gear it really sounds much better than the standard CDs.


Unfortunately Bayfiles is down and the Turbobit links are dead. Any chance of seeing a re-upload somewhere? I'd love to listen to this in this higher resolution.

The links are mostly all dead now. :(

The links are mostly all dead now. :(

Mewstly...will try a re-up shortlly.

Thank you very much for sharing this album in high quality !
It sounds really great indeed !

Thank you for this great score in amazing quality!! :)

Mega links added to start of thread

thanks

Thank-you Mr. Merrick. It sounds great!

Thank you very much.

Thanks!

Thank you very much!

Thanks for this nice post

thank you, this is one of the best ost ever, i love it

Thank you very much!... from Chile.

Thank you very much for this. Such an epic soundtrack.

Thanks, Mr. Merrick, for using mega.....

Thank you very much mr_merrick :D

Thank you very much!

You are more than welcome guys...This was my first Horner score :(

Thanks for sharing!

Thank you.

Thanks so much =)

Thank you!

Thank you Mr. Merrick...... today has been such a downer with the death of Maestro Horner......

Thank you! This is beautiful!

Amazing! Thank you very much! :)

Thank you for the links!

Thank you!

PM for new links. I won't post openly as a lot of my links were deleted.

I have an Alienware 17 from 2015 and some say that the Klipsch sound card is not that great. I find it to be fine, but like it has been said earlier: "you won't notice the difference in quality unless you have 24-bit output. I really need to get an external desktop DAC. Any recommendations?

Didn't know this was available in HD audio. Thanks for resurrecting.

Links received. Thanks

Question. mr_merrick, The first link (part 1) needs a description key and the rest of the links seems fine to download. Was this by accident or do I need a key for part 1? thanks in advanced.

Can anyone help me on what the description key is for the first link (part 1) is ?? The rest of the links seems fine to download accept the first link. Thanks someone for helping me out!!!

Can anyone help me on what the description key is for the first link (part 1) is ?? The rest of the links seems fine to download accept the first link. Thanks someone for helping me out!!!

Seconded... the key please?

mr_merrick, thanks for resending the links. All links worked. Thank you so much. KUDOS to you! Keep up the great work.

Likewise, received... thanks much!!

Many thanks mr_merrick for sharing James Horner's GLORY 24bit-96kHz FLAC ;-) I gave you a rep. Rated thread: excellent as always! ;-)

Thank you very much

link received, thanks a lot!:)

Link received. Terrific record. Thanks for sharing.

Link received very fast. Thank you very much!!!

Received.
Much appreciated !

Link received, thank you sir!

Link received. Thank you very much!!!

THANK YOU!!! I got the link!

Received. Thank you very much for the share.

Link received. Thank you!!!!!!!!

Would anyone have this in Classic Records DAD, VinylRip or Redbook ?

Thanks so much for the link! This is incredible!!!!!

John Brune