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Title: great performance rendered useless
Review: The performances on these recordings are wonderful. Truly treasures. It's really unfortunate, though, that the transfer is so incredibly poor. Here's the worst part: the mastering engineer is proud of it. There's a disclaimer about the mastering in the liner notes: the original 78-rpm record was transfered to tape then digitized for the CD with all care taken to preserve the quality of the original platter. I appreciate the care in concept but the hiss is infuriating and it really rendered this collection almost unlistenable.Definitely preview this collection before you buy it.
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