The old Legend/Titanus 2LP was very good remastering, all things considered. It always came out less treble than the 'official' albums, but with much richer bass dynamics, but I think that's more to do with the old RCA mixing decisions. In some ways the boot of 'Ben-Hur' from 'Aldebaran' has richer bass and mix than the Rhino: like 'cat' and 'dog' people, there are those who orientate towards treble and those who prefer bass. Subjective mostly.

If they stick to the original mastering, just removing intertrack hiss, it'll be fine. There is no new Rozsa material here as I've said, just the chorus alternatives. The Previous Japanese boot of the 2LP on CD was quite good, though there was a spacial lack and poorer differentiation. High end was there though.

Many of the most arresting little stings occur in the dramatic 'Mickey-Mousing' cues that never made it to the old album. The score is like some rich velvet carpet underlaying the whole terrible picture, and there is a 'glossiness' about the orchestration, rather like 'The V.I.P.s' of the same period (I don't mean reverb). Fourths and fifths abound.

Another great segment is the Intermezzo, which uses the sly 'warped but beautiful' flattened main theme, and the wonderful 'Answer to a Dream' in a more epic mould ... the imagery of sparkling glissandos on harp and sinister gongs as the piece fades away is clearly meant to evoke sand covering the archaeological remnants of dead civilizations, the image of course of the dust covering Ildeth's comb, thrown away by Lot as he gets a kisser full of sodium chloride in the last shot.