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  • Petrushka
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12239

    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
    I'm not sure what Pet's packaging problem is I find it fine and quite authodox.
    This is the set that is badly packaged: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Ba...rolli+Sibelius

    The more sensible re-issue is this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Co...rolli+sibelius
    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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    • cloughie
      Full Member
      • Dec 2011
      • 22115

      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      Is that the issue with the snowy cover and the spare "spoke*" as if for a sixth CD? I failed every woodwork assignment I was ever given, but this jewel case poses no problem for me (and the spare "spoke" now houses the CD of the Barbirolli RPO recording of the Second Symphony).

      * - what are those "teeth" things that hold the CD called?)
      My copy is like yours but but has no extra spoke for a sixth CD, but perfectly fine.

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
        This is the set that is badly packaged: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Ba...rolli+Sibelius

        The more sensible re-issue is this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Co...rolli+sibelius
        - I have the first, and don't find it awkward at all, let alone "badly packaged".
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • cloughie
          Full Member
          • Dec 2011
          • 22115

          Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
          This is the set that is badly packaged: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Ba...rolli+Sibelius

          The more sensible re-issue is this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Co...rolli+sibelius
          Hello Pet, if the Warner reissue is in a box with paper or cardboard sleeves then sure that is preferable but the EMI jewel case is fine - maybe takes up a little more shelf space!

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          • Beef Oven!
            Ex-member
            • Sep 2013
            • 18147

            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
            - I have the first, and don't find it awkward at all, let alone "badly packaged".
            That's because you have a degree in mechanical engineering, I imagine.

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            • teamsaint
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 25195

              Does anybody know of any plain cardboard boxes that would work for rehousing CDs? I'm thinking of a plain version of the sort that usually house 5/10 CD sets.

              This is the nearest I have found.


              But not ideal, and I don't want 25 !!
              I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

              I am not a number, I am a free man.

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                That's because you have a degree in mechanical engineering, I imagine.
                Not even a CSE in Woodwork
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                • Petrushka
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12239

                  My total lack of any kind of technical knowledge is the stuff of family legend and it's odd considering my late father was brilliant at woodwork.

                  On the question of sticky envelopes housing CD's, the solution is to either carefully slit them with a knife or, if you are as technically hopeless as I am, throw the sticky ones away and buy a pack of the non-sticky sort normally used for self-recorded DVDs.
                  "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                  • cloughie
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2011
                    • 22115

                    Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                    Does anybody know of any plain cardboard boxes that would work for rehousing CDs? I'm thinking of a plain version of the sort that usually house 5/10 CD sets.

                    This is the nearest I have found.


                    But not ideal, and I don't want 25 !!
                    As you say not ideal and quite costly. I wonder who supplies Warner and other record companies with theirs, it would be great to be able to produce my own boxed sets and save shelf space.

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22115

                      Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                      My total lack of any kind of technical knowledge is the stuff of family legend and it's odd considering my late father was brilliant at woodwork.

                      On the question of sticky envelopes housing CD's, the solution is to either carefully slit them with a knife or, if you are as technically hopeless as I am, throw the sticky ones away and buy a pack of the non-sticky sort normally used for self-recorded DVDs.
                      I agree Pet, but have you noticed recently these have become more difficult to get hold of at a reasonable price. I used to get them from Poundland but they have stopped stocking them.

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                      • Pulcinella
                        Host
                        • Feb 2014
                        • 10895

                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        I agree Pet, but have you noticed recently these have become more difficult to get hold of at a reasonable price. I used to get them from Poundland but they have stopped stocking them.
                        The boxes are of different sizes, too; the DG set I mentioned is already a tight fit for the 'envelopes' and I'm not sure that some of the replacement ones I've seen would fit!
                        Caution with the paper knife sufficed in this instance though!

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                        • cloughie
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2011
                          • 22115

                          Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                          The boxes are of different sizes, too; the DG set I mentioned is already a tight fit for the 'envelopes' and I'm not sure that some of the replacement ones I've seen would fit!
                          Caution with the paper knife sufficed in this instance though!
                          Another set which given the stuck down treatment is the Norrington Romantics. (Is it to dispel vibrato?)

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            Right - I've taken the plunge, and ordered myself the REGIS 18-CD set of "Great Verdi Operas" as a sort of New Year present to myself. I know some of the performances have "cuts" in them, and REGIS remasterings can be unpredictable, but for under £14 for the box, I thought it would be an inexpensive way to make another (possibly final) "assault" on these works that so many Musicians that I respect admire so much, but which have never appealed to me. So, I'll be spending much of 2018 with Verdi - a prospect that horrifies me, but tempered with a large pinch of hope.

                            No Don Carlos in the box, I notice ...


                            I must be out of my mind!
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                            • teamsaint
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 25195

                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                              Right - I've taken the plunge, and ordered myself the REGIS 18-CD set of "Great Verdi Operas" as a sort of New Year present to myself. I know some of the performances have "cuts" in them, and REGIS remasterings can be unpredictable, but for under £14 for the box, I thought it would be an inexpensive way to make another (possibly final) "assault" on these works that so many Musicians that I respect admire so much, but which have never appealed to me. So, I'll be spending much of 2018 with Verdi - a prospect that horrifies me, but tempered with a large pinch of hope.

                              No Don Carlos in the box, I notice ...


                              I must be out of my mind!
                              Meant to reply to this. You're a brave fellow Ferney. Good luck. Personally I'd have gone for the EMI big Box, ( well I did actually £10.99 and some classic recordings). Anyway, let us know what you are listening to. Might be fun for a few of us to do the same operas and compare notes. Quite a few of the discs in my Verdi box are,I have to say, still unlistened to........

                              Anyway, My Barbirolli Sibelius box turned up.

                              All good on the practical side of things, so, what with fixing the Dyson already this week, I'm tempted to get the O.U. BSc Mechanical Engineering brochure ordered up.......

                              Oh yes, the Finlandia sounded excellent.......
                              I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                              I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                                Personally I'd have gone for the EMI big Box, ( well I did actually £10.99 and some classic recordings).
                                That box has gone up in price, somewhat (and I don't mean Leontine!) - over £30 with P&P nowadays. (Some well-respected recordings there, too - the "Rigglealotto" is the same one as in the REGIS box.

                                I shall start my listening in the New Year - yes; it'd be interesting to compare notes! (Some operas not in the REGIS collection, though. If the hoped-for Damascene conversion occurs, I may very well get the WARNER/EMI box, too - but I'd still be Foscari-less!)
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