{"id":1778,"date":"2016-07-23T08:49:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T08:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkman-archive.com\/wa\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2016-07-23T08:49:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T08:49:46","slug":"star-wars-original-1977-soundtrack-cassette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/2016\/07\/star-wars-original-1977-soundtrack-cassette\/","title":{"rendered":"STAR WARS original 1977 soundtrack cassette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of STAR WARS saga, really, although I find it very cool and I enjoy a lot watching the movies (especially the three oldest ones). But I&#8217;m a fan of John Williams. His music is tremendously big. Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Bit by bit I have searched for some of the best (IMHO) vinyl and cassettes with his best scores. I already have the original soundtrack of the very first Star Wars movie, released in 1977, in a mint vinyl. It sounds very well, with that sound from the 70s so smooth, far from the brightness and\u00a0loudness of actual\u00a0masterings.<\/p>\n<p>What I casually found recently, and I admit I never knew that this existed (because they weren&#8217;t released in my country, Spain) is the original soundtrack cassette. The external design is far from perfect, I know. In fact, if I had to decide to buy it or not just by looking at it (without knowing what it contains) I would never buy it. But, hey&#8230; it&#8217;s John Williams&#8217; STAR WARS soundtrack. So I bought it for a ridiculous cheap price.<\/p>\n\n\t<style>\n\t.pictureframe69d34911eca6 {\n\t\twidth: 500px;\n\t\theight:auto;\n\t}\n\t<\/style><a rel=\"prettyPhoto\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Cassette-STAR-WARS-04.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Cassette-STAR-WARS-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"pictureframe69d34911eca6 pictureframe img-align-center pictureframe-image\"\/><\/a>\n<p>The condition is very good to excellent, but the big surprise came when I put it in my Dragon to listen: it sounds gorgeous! Oh my god, I think this is -by far- the best prerecorded cassette\u00a0I have in my entire collection. I was so surprised that I cannot believe it.<\/p>\n\n\t<style>\n\t.pictureframe69d349118730 {\n\t\twidth: 500px;\n\t\theight:auto;\n\t}\n\t<\/style><a rel=\"prettyPhoto\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Cassette-STAR-WARS-02.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Cassette-STAR-WARS-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"pictureframe69d349118730 pictureframe img-align-center pictureframe-image\"\/><\/a>\n<p>Well, yes, I know cassettes can sound really gorgeus, but I never found a prerecorded cassette that it does. Only in the latest years, after I acquired some of the best decks ever made (like a SONY K909ES, a Tandberg 3014, Nakamichi RX505 and Dragon&#8230;) and learn how to make excellent recordings that I really discovered the real limits of the cassette. And I know that -thanks to some NR systems like dbx- it can compete with the best sound out there.<\/p>\n\n\t<style>\n\t.pictureframe69d3491143eb {\n\t\twidth: 500px;\n\t\theight:auto;\n\t}\n\t<\/style><a rel=\"prettyPhoto\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Cassette-STAR-WARS-03.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Cassette-STAR-WARS-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"pictureframe69d3491143eb pictureframe img-align-center pictureframe-image\"\/><\/a>\n<p>I found that the best way to store the exquisite sound of a good vinyl is&#8230; a good cassette. I&#8217;ve tried to record with digital (yes, even 24bit\/96kHz) and some of the &#8216;life&#8217; of the music is lost. But that doesn&#8217;t happen to the cassette.<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, I know a cassette can sound excellent, but I admit I never heard a prerecorded one that could be rated\u00a0so good. After hearing this, I inmediately wanted to compare it with the same vinyl release,\u00a0and I was very surprised that the cassette even sounded a bit better! Yes, as it is recorded with no Dolby I can hear the hiss, and it&#8217;s a type I cassette it&#8217;s not that low, but that&#8217;s something that only bothers me in the lowest passages. The rest of the time it&#8217;s highly enjoyable, and the sound has a bit more body than the vinyl.<\/p>\n\n\t<style>\n\t.pictureframe69d3491197eb {\n\t\twidth: 500px;\n\t\theight:auto;\n\t}\n\t<\/style><a rel=\"prettyPhoto\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Cassette-STAR-WARS-05.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Cassette-STAR-WARS-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"pictureframe69d3491197eb pictureframe img-align-center pictureframe-image\"\/><\/a>\n<p>Also, as itsn&#8217;t dolby-encoded doesn&#8217;t happen what&#8217;s almost a common fact: engaging Dolby whily playing does eat all the high frequencies. Yes, it doesn&#8217;t lower the hiss but also preserves the HF. And&#8230; what a HF!<\/p>\n<p>I recently knew about MSFL cassettes that in my country were never seen. Now I know they are supposed to be the best available prerecorded cassette, but I still don&#8217;t have it, and as I see, this particular one it&#8217;s the most wanted one, so it&#8217;s very expensive. But there&#8217;s one actually coming home soon&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of STAR WARS saga, really, although I find it very cool and I enjoy a lot watching the movies (especially the three oldest ones). But I&#8217;m a fan of John Williams. His music is tremendously big. Awesome. Bit by bit I have searched for some of the best (IMHO) vinyl and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}