Bargains - not CDs!

[LeMartinPecheur]

What under?

Under ground, obviously.

With a stylish Ge-henna tattoo.

[muzzer]

I'm a big fan of the TP link "magic plugs" as they are known in this house. Easily the most useful thing I've bought in years.

[amateur51]

This thread's title briefly raised my hopes that the current Bargains was being split so as to keep downloaders apart from 'real' collectors

Any chance hosts, please please??

Second the motion!

[Dave2002]

Second the motion!

Why not just go ahead and do it then?

Bws Dave

[aeolium]

I recently downloaded the Angeles set of Haydn quartets from prestoclassical and I thought it was very good value at around £47. I have a mix of different recordings of the quartets on CD but with quite a few gaps and wanted a set that I can listen to when I am away from the house (or indeed away from the CD player, given the paucity of good material to listen to on R3 these days). I have never had the opportunity to explore Haydn's entire quartet oeuvre and look forward to many hours of interest and delight.

[umslopogaas]

I have been working my way through the RCA 63 CD box set of the complete Fritz Reiner RCA recordings. At ninety pounds this has to be a bargain, around one pound fifty per disc is so cheap I was slightly surprised they didnt just give them away. However, one slight caution, many of them are very short measure, between 30 and 40 mins per disc, sometimes even less. The sound quality is vintage early stereo and to my admittedly non-musicians ears is just fine.

[Dave2002]

This thread's title briefly raised my hopes that the current Bargains was being split so as to keep downloaders apart from 'real' collectors

Any chance hosts, please please??

One trouble with downloads is that some of them sound absolutely awful - but this is not always the case. Sometimes it's hard to tell a decently done MP3 from a CD, but some of them are so bad that one wants to scream.

Today I listened to part of an Itzhak Perlman collection I downloaded a few months ago. OK - it was cheap - but the sound quality of some of the items is diabolical, hence perhaps not a bargain.

Another of today's listening experiences was comparing some Spotify tracks with the same tracks from the CDs. For example, some of Harvey J Stokes' string quartets. Without hearing the CDs the sound from Spotify sounded OK, but the CDs removed some of the unwanted stridency and "tizz" round the edges.

[Thropplenoggin]

Another of today's listening experiences was comparing some Spotify tracks with the same tracks from the CDs. For example, some of Harvey J Stokes' string quartets. Without hearing the CDs the sound from Spotify sounded OK, but the CDs removed some of the unwanted stridency and "tizz" round the edges.

Ah, the so-called 'tizz was' process.

[teamsaint]

Ah, the so-called 'tizz was' process.

in through the ears, rather than "Up by the ears".

Saturday mornings have never been the same since..

[Flosshilde]

Perhaps this thread could be re-titled "non-musical bargains". (although that would still leave it open to people like Simon, late of this parish, to post information about bargain CDs of stuff he deemed 'not music' - did he put Schoenberg under that heading?)


(Oh, and ams & I - and a significant number of others - would be banned from contributing )

[teamsaint]

This thread is like studying English at University. Lots of discussion, dissection, and contextualising of the meaning of the thread, and naff all content.

Post Modern bargains, anybody?

[amateur51]

Why not just go ahead and do it then?

Bws Dave

I'm not a host and thus have no powers to do so - and thank goodness for that, many would echo

[amateur51]

This thread is like studying English at University. Lots of discussion, dissection, and contextualising of the meaning of the thread, and naff all content.

Post Modern bargains, anybody?

[johnb]

Another of today's listening experiences was comparing some Spotify tracks with the same tracks from the CDs. For example, some of Harvey J Stokes' string quartets. Without hearing the CDs the sound from Spotify sounded OK, but the CDs removed some of the unwanted stridency and "tizz" round the edges.

Were you listening to the Premium 320 kbps Spotify (with the "High quality streaming" box ticked) or the lower bitrate free access?

Also did you disable their dire volume normalisation (called "Set the same volume level for all tracks")?

[Dave2002]

Were you listening to the Premium 320 kbps Spotify (with the "High quality streaming" box ticked) or the lower bitrate free access?

Also did you disable their dire volume normalisation (called "Set the same volume level for all tracks")?

Yes to HD. Will have to try again with volume normalisation definitely off - I'm not sure. Does it really mess up SQ?