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Really thought Jay was replying to himself there for a second.

One thing I do love about Raider's March is that it works wonderfully both in march form and also in slower, contemplative form.

I love the theme, and for me it it hasn't been over-played so I definitely enjoy it when I hear it and the adventure it calls to mind, but I'm most drawn to some of Williams' more sentimental and childhood-evoking themes, like Somewhere in my Memory, the 'family' theme from the first Harry Potter, Tootles theme from Hook. I also like the theme from Stepmom, The Accidental Tourist, Shmi's theme from TPM since they evoke a similar sentimentality to me.

I never noticed, I'm going to check it out later.

Thanks for sharing @Miguel Andrade, what a treat to see this interview. I was taken with Williams' younger-sounding voice, and the expression in his eyes as he speaks. We see his humility again in the way he talks, and it's especially funny to hear him mentioning his ego. So nice to see him play the theme on the piano, with the arpeggios in left-hand giving me E.T. vibes a little bit. I can hear some differences in the piece during the recording session portion of the clip that he later revised into the full concertized version! Really cool clip!

Thanks, I will track it down.

For those who only have Sky Captain from Ed Shearmur, Johnny English is pretty fun.

Alien Resurrection - John Frizzell I found it both haunting and exciting when I first saw the movie, and I still do. I think it's a great score with a really nice use of electronic elements to add creepiness to the music, without being over the top. The sound quality on the LLL expanded release is fantastic. In my headphones, I feel like I'm sitting in the room. Percussion in particular sounds very 'real' with the bass drum having such weight and presence. I like the incorporation of a bit of Goldsmith's Alien music near the beginning of the score, the action music with healthy doses of horn rips/trills, and the softer moments have both an unsettling-ness and a beauty to them. I'm also really glad LLL included the Main Title without the electronics because I like hearing it both ways.

I watched the Star Wars trilogy growing up and had Home Alone and Hook on VHS that got a lot of repeat plays. I knew I liked hearing the music, and was interested in orchestral instruments from a young age. A family friend and big Star Wars fan had the Star Wars Anthology CD box set and let me borrow it. I made myself Cassette tapes from those CDs (I put the tracks into as chronological order as I could figure) and that was my gateway into wanting to hear more music from films. I do think I would have ended up about the same even if it weren't for me borrowing that set, because I was on my way toward wanting more movie music to listen to outside of the movies, but it perhaps accelerated things.

@GerateWohl I second what @Yavar Moradi says. Poledouris wrote a lot of great music and it's worth exploring! Some of my favorites... Big Wednesday The Blue Lagoon Cherry 2000 Conan the Destroyer Farewell to the King Flesh+Blood Free Willy Lonesome Dove Quigley Down Under Red Dawn Robocop Robocop 3 Starship Troopers

I actually really like the main theme from Prometheus, but other than that there isn't a whole lot that I am gripped by. And yeah, the one HGW cue was nice!

Aaron Zigman - Bridge to Terabithia Ilan Eshkiri - Stardust Marc Streitenfeld - Prometheus I enjoy the above to a decent degree, especially Stardust, but haven't been inspired enough yet to check out more of their work. Of those, It's Ilan Eshkiri I'd be most excited to explore.

I wonder if it is simply that more of the close mics are being used. When I listen to fanfares in TPM, I get a sense of the space of the room, the trumpets sound more distant to my ears. In TFA, it sounds like I'm close up to the trumpets, and the rest of the brass really.

Underrated: Angela's Ashes It's one that I instantly loved when I got the CD when it first came out. The theme has a sadness and beauty to it and only the last cue of the film before the end credits does the score have a sense of hope and uplift to it.

This was really awesome to listen to @Thor. Very informative, well presented and I appreciate the organized way you went through the different TV series' and the fun and interesting details you provided. My favorite music clips are: General Electric Theatre: S10E03 10 Days in the Sun - really playful and fun! Bachelor Father: I really enjoy the main title theme! Wagon Train: "Jumpin' Jack Rabbit" track from the OST is really fun and something about the melody makes me think of the main theme from Bachelor Flat. Other thoughts: Really cool bit of info that Williams may actually appear in an episode of Playhouse 90 as a pianist. I'd love to see that if the the episode ever surfaces. With 45 episodes scored for Bachelor Father plus the theme for Season 3, man I'd love to hear all of that stuff. I have a soft spot for the lighter TV music of these older eras. Thanks again for sharing the information and putting it together so nicely, I am excited for Part II!

@Thor I'm so excited to listen to this. Thank you for creating it and sharing your accumulation of knowledge on these early shows. I'm excited to dive in later today!

"Fire" Example: "damn that star wars song is fire!"

I looked for them after we parked and couldn't find them. I wanted to record it. It was a whole phrase too, not just a few notes!

Just when I think I've heard everything....

The other day, we were headed to dinner and someone's car horn beeped, but they had programmed it to beep Hedwig's Theme.

I really like this version of Hymn to the Fallen by VOCES8. Such a pure and beautiful sound to their voices: Arrangement of With Malice Toward None by Christian Anton:

Also a really cool stinger in I Don't Know Jack at 1:26 that to me is a clear nod to Horner's Aliens, specifically the stinger in Sub-Level 3 at 5:55 which in the film is also tracked into the moment where we first see Newt run across the hall. This was a really fun score! I'm going to give it another run later today. And like mentioned, that is a super cool version of the Marvel logo theme in the Mane Title.

Well, as @HunterTech alluded to above, I also have noticed that among audiophiles, there is a group who thinks that above a certain (lower) amount of money, there isn't an audible or meaningful difference in quality, and then there's another grouping of audiophiles who claim they can hear the difference with a more expensive DAC. Disclaimer: the following is opinion and some audiophiles may disagree with me. Viewer discretion is advised. I've tried about 8 or 9 DACs in the 150.00 - 800.00 range, and I fall into the category that cannot tell a meaningful difference. I might get more features like more inputs/ outputs, but as far as the sound goes, I feel like I'm good with something in the 150 to 300.00 range as far as a DAC goes. Some audiophile's claim that you have to get into the super high-end DACs to hear a real difference, and that everything in the 100.00 to 1000.00 range sounds about the same. I can't comment on that. My experience was this: -I was used to my crappy onboard sound on my motherboard for years -I got an external DAC for around 150.00, and I said "oh wow, that is better"....it was noticeable. -Through the next few years, I tested, bought/sold some DACs because of reading things online, but for the most part, did not hear a meaningful difference over what I started with one exception which was a Schhit Bifrost 2 which I currently use. One thing I will say that does make an audible difference (in my experience) is an R-2R ladder DAC such as the Denafrips Ares II. This kind of DAC uses a different technology to do the digital-to-analogue conversion and a lot of people love the sound of this. It's a lot warmer, lush...however it can lack some of the fine detail that more traditional chip-based DACs have. I listened to this one, and it certainly sounded warmer and nice, but in the end, I missed some of the fine detail that sounded less defined on this, and did not keep it. The reason I settled on the Schiit Bifrost 2 is because Schiit's 'multibit dac' technology gives some of the warmth that I heard on that Denafrips Ares II, but had more detail, it was like a nice middleground. TLDR: It probably isn't worth spending more than say 300 bucks on a DAC unless you have special ears that hear a difference or want to pay more for more features or want the warmth of an R-2R ladder DAC (at slight cost of detail loss).

I think that Fiio K5 will get the job done @Jayand will be a noticeable improvement over what is in the Dell laptop. I also recommend Schiit's entry level DAC/amps for value, as @HunterTech mentioned above.