Charity Shop Trawl

[Petrushka]

Excellent bargain. Lots to enjoy in this set. Well spotted!

Slightly deviating, but thought I'd throw this one into the mix, as you mention Solti. I particularly enjoy this Brahms PC no. 1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brahms-Piano...s=brahms+solti

Funny you should mention this recording. I picked it up second hand last summer but on playing it found a scratch on the CD playing area which rendered it useless. I'll try one of the £0.04 ones on offer!

The Solti Brahms symphony set is a favourite of mine, by the way.

[visualnickmos]

Funny you should mention this recording. I picked it up second hand last summer but on playing it found a scratch on the CD playing area which rendered it useless. I'll try one of the £0.04 ones on offer!

The Solti Brahms symphony set is a favourite of mine, by the way.

How annoying! I'm sure we've all been there...... the same thing happened to me once, so I thought I would try and copy it, on the off-chance. And it worked! The copy plays perfectly well...... but at 4p a shot that's on offer - I'd go with that and save the time..... I hope you enjoy it

Solti's Brahms set is also one of my favourites. I know Solti has his detractors, but for me, he never fails to impress. He's never dull, that's for sure!

[LeMartinPecheur]

Funny you should mention this recording. I picked it up second hand last summer but on playing it found a scratch on the CD playing area which rendered it useless.

Pet: I've posted this before, but counterintuitively, it's only a bad scratch on the label side of a CD/ DVD that is guaranteed unrepairable. Scratches on the 'playing' side can be polished out if you're patient enough. There are even cheapish machines that will do it for you.

[Conchis]

Pet: I've posted this before, but counterintuitively, it's only a bad scratch on the label side of a CD/ DVD that is guaranteed unrepairable. Scratches on the 'playing' side can be polished out if you're patient enough. There are even cheapish machines that will do it for you.

Can you talk me through your process for this? :)


If a CD jumps, I squirt washing up liquid on it, give it a dunk, the dry it. This only deals with dirt, though.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Today in Bodmin, the Klemperer/ Barenboim Complete LvB symphs & piano conc's, 9CDs for £6.45...which means my also-ex-charity-shop LP box of the symphs can seek a new owner

Plus the Abbado/DG cpte Daphnis & Chloe + Valses nobles... for 99p.

And please see a new thread I'm about to start re a shed-load of German CDs of historic Mozart performances which I can't really trace online at all EDIT Here it is if all goes well http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...zart-CD-series

[Don Petter]

Can you talk me through your process for this? :)

If a CD jumps, I squirt washing up liquid on it, give it a dunk, the dry it. This only deals with dirt, though.

Toothpaste is often advocated.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Toothpaste is often advocated.

Coarse white toothpaste, followed by Brasso in this 'workshop'

[Don Petter]

Coarse white toothpaste, followed by Brasso in this 'workshop'

And always rub radially, not 'round the circle'.

[Don Petter]

Coarse white toothpaste, followed by Brasso in this 'workshop'

Better even than toothpaste is to use some of that bottle of T-Cut at the back of the garage shelf.

[visualnickmos]

Better even than toothpaste is to use some of that bottle of T-Cut at the back of the garage shelf.

Better still - handle your CDs with care in the first place!
and check the condition of charity shop 'bargains' very carefully.....

[Don Petter]

Better still - handle your CDs with care in the first place!
and check the condition of charity shop 'bargains' very carefully.....

I don't think you have to be too finnicky over charity shop CDs. I bought five yesterday (3 Bach, a Frescobaldi and a Scarlatti, probably all from one collection) which looked as if they had not been treated carefully and were covered in light scuffs. They all proved to play audibly perfectly (though who knows what the error correction was doing).

[Bryn]

I don't think you have to be too finnicky over charity shop CDs. I bought five yesterday (3 Bach, a Frescobaldi and a Scarlatti, probably all from one collection) which looked as if they had not been treated carefully and were covered in light scuffs. They all proved to play audibly perfectly (though who knows what the error correction was doing).

Rip 'em with EAC and see what it reports. I have never had an unplayable CD from. Charity Sop, but rather too many new ones in sealed wrappers.

[Conchis]

Today

Sibelius - Complete Symphonies, LSO/Davis £1.95

Vaughan Williams - Symphonies, etc. BBCSO/Andrew Davis £1.45

9 discs in all!

[Don Petter]

Rip 'em with EAC and see what it reports. I have never had an unplayable CD from. Charity Shop, but rather too many new ones in sealed wrappers.

I have indeed ripped them all with EAC, with no errors reported. My point was that a player, without the luxury of being able to try a re-read, might be relying on some error correction.

[ARBurton]

Today

Sibelius - Complete Symphonies, LSO/Davis £1.95

Vaughan Williams - Symphonies, etc. BBCSO/Andrew Davis £1.45

9 discs in all!

Astounding! And please please don`t take this the wrong way, but don`t you feel guilty about getting such a phenomenal bargain from a charity shop? (Although having said that I often feel that the Oxfam specialist music/book shops over-price things remarkably, to what one may imagine is a detriment on their takings.)