porcy62

THANKS!

I found this site http://www.recordmaster.com. I don't know anything about it. It cost 25 $ per years, but it could worth it if the rating could help me to avoid ludicrous expensive and overpriced Lp (like some recent Ebay auctions). Any comment or suggestion? Thanks

That's my experience. I have a great record shop two blocks from home, cheap and well stocked so I buy by mail only the stuff I don't find there. I won several MBS on Ebay, all sent via USPS, "used cd" as content, never payed a euros, BUT, because of that, italian lazy postmans simply left the box inside the building doors, near the mail boxes, so I lost the Giuffre set. Since then I avoid this cheap, but dangerous way of shipping. No tracking number, no way to check the shipping, only waiting and hoping!!! I ordered several stuff from Mosaic and Acoustic Sound and I had to pay the handling and Vat, BUT because I had to pay, the service is faster and safe. I tend to order more items saving on shipping cost and, in case of Acoustic Sound I have a discount that is up to 10% for ordering more than 1000 $. For example a Classic Record Lp costs 42 euros in specialized italian high end shop that is more than 51 dollars, Acoustic Sound priced it at 30 dollars, plus 20% VAT at Italian custom and let's say 2 dollar of shipping and handling per Lp on a 1000 dollars order, minus 10% AS discount. The grand total is 35 dollars, less than 29 euros. Less shippings but concentrated!!!

Does anybody know the difference between the black box set and the blue one? How many copies were pressed? Did MFSL release also all the single Beatles albums? I saw the average Ebay winning price is around $ 1000. TOO much? Does anybody own it? Is it sound really stunning as someone claims? Better than a original first pressing?

It's funny, in college the double lps were ideal for cleaning weed, and every now and then I'll pull out an album and find seeds inside. Ah, the good old days....... I remember something like that... If you compare Lp's sleeves to cd's plastic box, you can understand why cds are strictly eighty's, the plastic box is more suitable for cocaine lines... I prefer Lps

There was a similar post in BNBB that I started, Claude should remember it. I bought a copy of Bowie Ziggie Stardust, my brand new Lynn cd player could not read it. Lynn answer me that their cd player are Red Book based, so if the copy protection cd does not match the red book standard, the player consider it as a data cd. I gave the cd back to the shop. The last RVG BN bunch I bought was copy protected, and my cd player spend a lot of time to read the toc of cd, sometimes it could not read it and I have to reset the cd (swich off). I do not have done a A/B comparison, so I do not know if the sonic quality is lower but: 1 it is very annoyingly to reset the cd 2 it is very very annoyingly I could not listen to some cds 3 it is very stupid, and annoyingly for the customers, to prevent private copy when an industrial copy is possible (via analog cd output) if this is the real goal of copy protection. 4 I burned several copy of Dylan cds for my nephew without any problems (Hybrid Sacd are not, until now, copy protected) I could not understand the real goal of music industry, but my behavoir after experienced this copy protected cd was the following: I upgrade my analog set up and start to buy only Lps, used and new, of old stuff. I do not care anymore of rererereremastered cd, just waiting to find a good used Lp or Lp reissues. I still buy new cd of modern artist if vinyl is not issued. When I find some cd reissue that I really I could not live without I order it in USA via Mosaic. BTW the sonic quality of a good vinyl is, IMMO unbeatable.

Thanks!

Does anybody know wich are the last catalogue number of ECM issued in both Lp and Cd? I guess it's around 1440 but I am not sure.

"KIND OF BLUE" and "IF I COULD ONLY REMEBER MY NAME". MILES DAVIS and DAVID CROSBY, the LPs I would bring in a desert island

Since I upgraded my old Thorens with a new Lynn analog front end, I rediscovered my Lp collection. I found Lps sound considerably better than cds. I buy Lps wich I am intersted even if I have a cd copy, I sell the replaced cd if the digital mastering is old (pre '90) or the bonus track is lacking or artistically trascurable, otherways I keep them both. In Italy is difficult to find good used copies of Lps, Ebay is good only for big purchase like Mosaic boxes, because the shipping is expensive and unsafe for a single Lp, (I lost several stuffs via USPS or Italian PS), for a Box (usually more than hundred bucks) you could spend at least 20 bucks to get them safe, not worthy for a 20 bucks Lp). I buy Lps if they have a good pressing from analogue source, I buy them on american websites because Euro/dollar exchange rates is good, they are cheaper even with shipping and custom taxes

Thanks. BTW I found this useful link http://www.loc.gov/preserv/care/record.html

How do you clean your Lps?

David Crosby IF I COULD ONLY REMEMBER MY NAME (US first pressing)

Hi everybody!!! Is anybody out there that have suggestions about this big list of 180 grams Lp, I don't know anything about most of this records, nor the quality of recording/mastering or the artistic value of the music, since they are easily available here in Rome I would like buy some of them http://www.matson.it/html/hivinylcat.asp?l...8+60+%2D+70+%29 thanx porcy the labels list http://www.matson.it/html/hivinyl.asp