I'm sure you will. I've just had particularly bad luck with JPC, which is why I don't plan to order from them again.
I got my copy (of the Klemperer Amsterdam Concertgebouw SACD box) from JPC yesterday. So glad I ordered it before it went out of stock! I'm mystified as to why this very attractive package would be so limited in quantities so that IF anyone bothers to review it, it won't be available. There has been a tremendous amount of work done to find better sources and/or perform very good audio restoration. I could quibble that there is a BIT more audible processing at work than ideal (a little bit of a stereo effect, which might affect headphone listening, and what seems to be a touch of reverb which is certainly unnecessary), but a few comparisons to previous Archiphon issues reveals obvious improvements. The Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements, for example, was a crumbling mess of distortion previously, and is now tonally pretty clean and marred by just a bit of tape "swish" here and there. Some items are from original radio master tapes (the Beethoven 8th and 9th concert from 1956) and those are fabulous sonically. Everything I've heard so far is more than listenable and there is nothing that is a chore to get through sonically (so far). And the music making is a joy nearly without equal in Klemperer's discography. Being both a Klemperer fan and a Concertgebouw Orkest worshipper, it's nearly nirvana!
I'd like to post some pictures of boxes I want to sell. (I will post them in the classified section, but I would give those here a heads-up.) What is a good free site where I can upload photos that can be accessed via a link? I don't want to download a program. I think I used to use something called "Tinypic", but they are no more. EDIT - Actually, Dropbox seems to work without a download. Additional recommendations welcome.
Let's see. I got an email from Mobile Fidelity about Jeff Beck's truth being available again. Went to the site to order - its out of print. The lag between the 2 events: 10 minutes.
Looks like that Orpheus Chamber Orchestra box will be released that week. $115 on Amazon (not bad for 55 cds...) - are we preordering or waiting to see if price drops a bit after release?
I'm curious what system, if any, you use to listen to your mega boxes? I have one as I plan to listen to every CD I own (pending living long enough ). My system depends upon box organisation. 1) For chronological boxes (by career, recording date, historical era) I listen start to finish. This works for boxes such as the Galway complete RCA box and the DG 100 CD History box. 2) For large Composer boxes ordered by genre (like Brilliant Classics boxes) I listen to each genre as if it was a small box, jumping around based on my mood. 3) The rest. Like the Decca analogue box. Based on whim. I track all of this, along with single CD listening, in a worn school exercise book:
Disc 1 to the end, unless I think I'd get bored waiting for later CDs. In that case (as with my chronological organ box) it's 1, 11, 21, 31, 41, 2, 12, etc. and the like. On occasion, I've jumped ahead to (say) play a composer group (e.g., Beethoven's sonatas). In that case, I just bend a large Post-It over the discs and return to the numerical order. I'm not interested in keeping track in writing, though I'd have to if things got too complicated (i.e., TonyACT-complicated).
Completely on a whim, depending on my mood, part of the day and even part of the year. I jump from one box to another in no particular order or system. I do not keep any log or anything like that. The result is that I listened to some cds at least a dozen times whereas many still haven't been listened to at all. But this does not bother me.
Similarly, for me it's about ready access to choices. If I'm on a certain composer kick, I'll listen to those particular CDs in each box and figure out which recording of a work is my favorite.
Ready access to choices resonates, I do a lot of random jumping between boxes. The slightly OCD part of me makes me track the jumps PS I'm an ICT program manager - I suspect one reflects the other.
Just ship them all down-under and I'll send some Oz doubloons in payment. I'll give any I already have to the op shop so we both feel good.
I also like to make sure I’ve listened to everything at least once. So I typically move discs to the back of the box once I’ve listened to them, using the booklet as a divider between listened to and not. After that, I usually move through the discs in order, or pull whatever I want to hear. If the next “to listen to” disc sits for a while and I’m not as keen on listening to it, I’ll move it to the back of the “to listen to” section to un-block my progress on that box
A pianists' pianist who's been criminally underrated for decades. It's no wonder Argerich studied with him.
