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  4. Classical music bargains

    in Classical Discussion

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    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.

  6. Classical music bargains

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    Posted · Edited by Bigshot

    This still bothers me ... how does your box look? Do the discs have all the Sony numbers and stuff included? Would they really bother to reproduce all that, down to every tiny detail (the black-in-black print around the fake-label on the top of the discs, for instance)? And would they find ways to be distributed by real stores and serious shops like JPC? or would that indeed be re-sellers and ebay?

    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.

  7. Classical music bargains

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    Posted · Edited by Bigshot

    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

  17. Are there any box bargains currently available?

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

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    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.

  21. Opera

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    Posted · Edited by Bigshot

    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.

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