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It's hard to know how good a remastering is unless you know the condition the elements they were working with were in.

For about a day and a half, this set was 17 euro at Amazon.it... http://www.haenssler-classic.de/en/detail-view/titel/die-kompletten-werke-fuer-klavier-solo/175587/175587/175587.html

Just received the Russian Masters box and the CPE Bach complete keyboard works box... still ripping the EMI Beethoven Masterpieces box. I gotta get rippin'!

The big thing about the one I got was the smell. It was unmistakable, and you could smell it several feet away. I think I got my set around Christmas. I wonder if the reissue was in the works back then and the factory in China that was set to manufacture it might have sold off their prototypes.

Great deal on the Bob Hope. Just ordered it along with the ten movie $10 complete Ma and Pa Kettle set.

The box looks exactly the same but it has a very strong odor of offset printing. The individual sleeves are lighter weight I think and are very difficult to get the disks out of. All of the cover markings and booklets look like they were copied exactly. The disks themselves are grayish, not black, so they look kind of like worn records. I'm guessing in the legit box they are darker. Perhaps the bootlegs spurred Sony to put it back in print again.

I'm totally serious. There are a lot of pricey box sets that have been bootlegged in China. They say there are more bootleg copies of the Beatles stereo box than legit ones. I bought a sealed Heifetz box earlier in the year and I'm pretty sure it's a bootleg. The bootleg Heifetz boxes were going for a little over $300 on Amazon third party and eBay. The one I got smelled strongly of a print shop. Here is a list of the boxes I was able to ID as being sold as bootlegs. I heard the Horowitz and complete Glenn Gould had been knocked off too, but I haven't seen one myself yet. Beatles Stereo Box Pink Floyd Discovery Box Heifetz Complete Album Collection Led Zeppelin 40th Anniversary Oh By The Way Pink Floyd Eagles Complete Catalogue U2 Complete Edition AC/DC Box Black Sabbath Slabs Iron Maiden Box Keith Jarrett Sun Bear Concerts Leonard Cohen Complete Studio Collection Judas Priest Complete Madonna Studio Albums Bon Jovi All Access Green Day Studio Albums

I believe this new batch of Heifetz boxes is Chinese bootlegs. Does yours smell like it was printed recently?

I bet more people will get to visit it in Washington Heights than in West Redding.

I don't think I'll miss those Irish songs.

Sony Complete Beethoven (looks really good) 39 euro (less than a buck a disk shipped to the US) http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Ludwig-van-Beethoven-1770-1827-Beethoven-Alle-Meisterwerke-60CD-Limited-Edition/hnum/1028313

Living Stereo Box 2 48 pounds at amazon.uk (preorder) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Living-Stereo-Collection-Volume-2/dp/B00GP8YHAU/

this thread is heavy on the internet fan boi

By the way, for the folks with the Charlie Parker Records box, the mono material sounds a lot better if you rip it to true mono instead of the way it's presented on the disks. When they did the transfer from LPs, they transferred in stereo. If you sum the channels together to create true mono it cuts the surface noise in half.

Oh man! I just got the Charlie Parker Records box. I'm like a pig in mud. This stuff is great!

The lead designer of speakers at McIntosh says wire is wire http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm The best place for wire is Monoprice.com

Do any of you know what is the overlap between this set and Membran's 100-CD set, World's Greatest Jazz Collection: Bebop Story? I found little discussion about this set on Organissimo - someone had provided a link to the track listing, but the link no longer works and I have been unable to find any detailed track listing for this set, which sells for $89.99 on Amazon. It's not likely that they are the same masterings. Membran has gone through some changes since those 100 CD boxes. The sound quality has improved significantly.

I ordered Moochin About's French New Wave box. It is completely up to the standards of the first two boxes. I'll order whatever they put out. Quality stuff.

The sound quality on this box is phenomenal. The same goes for the similar Joni Mitchell box set. Are there any more in this series?

I'd rather consume pornography in the privacy of my own home than indulge in the middle of a crowd of a couple of thousand people in fancy dress.

Blu-Ray and big TVs have made opera something entirely new. Instead of dealing with the hassle of going to the opera house, or getting half a show by listening to CDs, I can enjoy The Ring anytime I want, or see Traviata or Rigoletto with first class productions. Opera is the ultimate art form. I remember back in the 70s and 80s watching operas on TV and being vaguely interested, but seeing them on a ten foot hidef projection screen with 5:1 sound is doggone close to seeing them live... in some ways, it's even better. In the past year, my collection of operas on blu-ray has grown considerably. Ballet too. Lots of great performances out there to sample.

That Naked City box is spectacular. I got it discounted on preorder and ordered it blind. Super glad I did. Fantastic show.

I do. Any questions? How much of it is classical music? I'm not so keen on crossover.

It's hard to find bad sets of Haydn symphonies. They stand up to a variety of approaches.

Brilliant Classics Complete Beethoven Box 1 euro a disk http://www.amazon.es/Complete-Edition-Beethoven/dp/B00DUPU6BU/