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| 734.1 | | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Fri Apr 24 1987 13:23 | 7 |
| All the Philips "Silver Line Classics" and the Deutsche Grammophone mid-line
CDs were on sale at the Harvard Coop at $9.99 last weekend.
Electric Gramophone in Sudbury also had them, and, as usual, had them $3 more
expensive than in town.
/john
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| 734.2 | Just mid-price or mid-fi too? | AIAG::BILLMERS | Meyer Billmers, AI Applications | Fri Apr 24 1987 14:17 | 10 |
| Also, the COOP occasionally has $3 off sales which puts most CDs at $13
and if you belong to the COOP you get about 10% off that at year's end...
I've heard real bad things about the engineering of CBS discs. It's not just
cardboard packaging that makes a disc unacceptable at a given price. So,
1. Have others had this experience with CBS?
2. Are other major labels (TELARC, Archiv, etc.) coming down too, or is
it just mid-fi disks that are mid-priced? (I noted .1 mentions DGG and
Philips, but this was just a "sale" price, no?
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| 734.3 | Cheap CD's are here to stay! | BISTRO::HEIN | If We don't Have it,You don't Need it! | Sat Apr 25 1987 05:22 | 51 |
| > (I noted .1 mentions DGG and
>Philips, but this was just a "sale" price, no?
No. This offer is going to last. At least for some months, but
probably for ever. A similar offer is avaiable here in Europe at
comparable prices which, I believe, is the first time.
The explanation from a store here is that the music presented
is _Culture_ and thus they can use a special 7% Tax instead of
the (in France) usual 33% !?!?
The prices for those CDs are around; 25 Dutch guilders,
75 French Francs, 18000 Italian Lires (should be 15000?)
The series available at that price are now:
Philips: Silver Line Classic
Deutsche Gram.: Galeria
Decca: Ovation
Erato: Bonsai
Hungaroton: White Label
Harmonia Mundi: Musique d'Abord
Chant Du Monde: CLub
Pickwick-IMP
Polygram: "Special Price" (pop records with special
removable jacket around standard inlay,
Titles Include:
Bee Gees, Best Of Vol 1
Bronski Beat Hundreds and Thousand
JJ Cale Troubadour
Carmel The drum is everything
Dire Straights Communique
Kitaro Silver Cloud
Level 42 Level 42
Shadows XXV
Donna Summer Walk Away
Tears for Fears The Hurting
Flashdance
Local Hero
Midnight Express
The Philips & DGG series are all 'Digital Remasterd'; ADD
Pickwick on the contrary offers all new recordings; DDD
Erato Bonsai feature all 60+ minutes of music.
In the same timeframe we also received a series of very-
low priced CDs with Extremely bad quality. All proven
million seller old best of pop disks. Prices aorund 60FF.
Pure waist of money. Unfortunatly I don't remember the
lable now. Something like 'black gold'. Yuch.
Hope this helps,
Hein van den Heuvel, Valbonne
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| 734.4 | CBS ok by me | DSSDEV::CHALTAS | and what about Naomi? | Mon Apr 27 1987 12:34 | 4 |
| re .2
I've a bunch of CBS CdD's -- no complaints so far. Not
"extra-super-audiophile-minimalmiking-othergoodbuzzwords",
but quite decent.
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| 734.5 | CBS QUALITY | FDCV09::XXDEV3 | | Fri May 01 1987 16:52 | 3 |
| I too have many CBS CD's and have only one complaint. Simon &
Garfunkels Greatest Hits has a lot of tape hiss, but I believe that
is the result of poor master tape quality to begin with.
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| 734.6 | Watch Out For Overpricing | AQUA::ROST | Are we having fun yet? | Wed Aug 19 1987 15:33 | 14 |
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A note on mid-priced CDs...
Be careful when buying these. I have seen a number of them clearly
marked with the CBS "Collector's Series" logo or the equivalent
from other labels, yet the store was asking full price!!!
I wouldn't suggest arguing with the clerk (I once got exasperated
over a guy who tried to charge me $7 for a sampler LP clearly marked
by the manufacturer "Do not pay more than $0.99") just go to another
store for it.
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