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  • MickyD
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 4775

    #61
    I think I'd say frightened rather than threatened!

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    • Zucchini
      Guest
      • Nov 2010
      • 917

      #62
      Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
      I keep being threatened with things like this .... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Only-Classic.../dp/B000026APH
      Like a Swiss Army Knife, a man should carry one at all times. Go on, treat yourself, you know you want one...

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      • LeMartinPecheur
        Full Member
        • Apr 2007
        • 4717

        #63
        Originally posted by Zucchini View Post
        Like a Swiss Army Knife, a man should carry one at all times. Go on, treat yourself, you know you want one...
        If you buy it and ever order another classical CD, do you get compensation?
        I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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        • Eine Alpensinfonie
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 20570

          #64
          Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
          Is that just your collection of Alpensinfonie recordings?
          I don't yet have 2,000 CDs. I was referring to "reinerfan"'s 18,000 CDs.

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          • Dave2002
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 18023

            #65
            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
            Threatened?
            Yes.

            A deal - I am given that (or a similar) CD and EVERYTHING ELSE goes to Oxfam, or the skip etc.

            All storage problems solved¡


            NO O OOOOOOOOO!!!!!

            ¿Comprende?

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            • Lento
              Full Member
              • Jan 2014
              • 646

              #66
              At least it's now legal to rip CDs. I'm guessing that one would, strictly speaking, then need to bin them rather than hand them on?!

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              • MrGongGong
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 18357

                #67
                Originally posted by Lento View Post
                At least it's now legal to rip CDs. I'm guessing that one would, strictly speaking, then need to bin them rather than hand them on?!
                Indeed, that is what people are supposed to do.

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                • mathias broucek
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 1303

                  #68
                  Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
                  So, no problem with bigboxset addiction here. My heart goes out to sufferers, but I get a headache just looking at them! It reminds me of that scene in Hornby's High Fidelity where the intense, nerdy recordshop guy says (tone of great impatience, clutching a towering pile of cassettes), "I've got all these to work through yet...!"
                  I've mostly recovered from big box addiction. Psychologically there's something nice about single disks. I'm aware that this is illogical but "record" collecting isn't a particularly logical thing to do, particularly in these days of unlimited lossless streaming....

                  Of course one of the joys of ripping losslessly is that one can covert boxed sets back to single disc first edition releases which has given me disproportionate pleasure!

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                  • VodkaDilc

                    #69
                    Originally posted by mathias broucek View Post
                    particularly in these days of unlimited lossless streaming....
                    I think this means that you can hear any music any time you want. If I am correct (this is an area which does not interest me, hence my vagueness), don't people who use this suffer from the sheer 'unlimitedness' of what's available?

                    If I want to hear a particular work from my CD collection, I can get it from the shelves in the knowledge that I have given considerable thought to buying it - so I know it's a recording I want to hear. If everything is available, I fear that I would spend hours trying to select from the vastness of what's on offer.

                    Isn't that a major drawback to unlimited availability?

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                    • mathias broucek
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 1303

                      #70
                      Originally posted by VodkaDilc View Post
                      I think this means that you can hear any music any time you want. If I am correct (this is an area which does not interest me, hence my vagueness), don't people who use this suffer from the sheer 'unlimitedness' of what's available?

                      If I want to hear a particular work from my CD collection, I can get it from the shelves in the knowledge that I have given considerable thought to buying it - so I know it's a recording I want to hear. If everything is available, I fear that I would spend hours trying to select from the vastness of what's on offer.

                      Isn't that a major drawback to unlimited availability?
                      I agree. Choosing what to listen to from an unlimited selection would be daunting indeed!

                      It's hard enough from one's own collection.... We sometimes pick a number at random (collection is numbered) as a way to break through the confusion

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                      • hafod
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 740

                        #71
                        Enough of this soul-searching! Shostakovich: Symphonies - Kitajenko (Capriccio) 12 sacds for £17.41 delivered. This appears to be a flip top box not the earlier jewel cases so very little pressure on space.

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                        • richardfinegold
                          Full Member
                          • Sep 2012
                          • 7668

                          #72
                          Originally posted by hafod View Post
                          Enough of this soul-searching! Shostakovich: Symphonies - Kitajenko (Capriccio) 12 sacds for £17.41 delivered. This appears to be a flip top box not the earlier jewel cases so very little pressure on space.
                          http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B001GZ011Q/
                          It's a great set, wonderfully recorded, and I paid a lot more than that for it several years ago

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                          • EdgeleyRob
                            Guest
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 12180

                            #73
                            Originally posted by hafod View Post
                            Enough of this soul-searching! Shostakovich: Symphonies - Kitajenko (Capriccio) 12 sacds for £17.41 delivered. This appears to be a flip top box not the earlier jewel cases so very little pressure on space.
                            http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B001GZ011Q/
                            There's yer culprit

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26540

                              #74
                              Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                              I'm looking forward to Hafod's contribution to this thread.
                              Be careful what you wish for.... !


                              .


                              That Kitaenko set has my interest!
                              "...the isle is full of noises,
                              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                              • richardfinegold
                                Full Member
                                • Sep 2012
                                • 7668

                                #75
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                                That Kitaenko set has my interest! [/COLOR][/QUOTE]

                                The two weakest ones in the set are 5 and 10, perhaps Shosty's two most frequently performed symphonies. Otherwise, it's very strong across the board. Particularly excellent are 4, 6-9, and 11

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