CD and Vinyl Bargains!

Posted by: Gale 401 on 08 July 2011

HMV vinyl hit special offers.

Be quick the page has changed from yesterday.

This 14 LP box set is now £149.99 inc free post.

Posted on: 08 July 2011 by Gale 401

Robbies new double vinyl album is £5.99 inc free post from hmv.

Posted on: 08 July 2011 by Gale 401

Stripes double vinyl is £4.99 inc post from hmv.

Posted on: 09 July 2011 by Guido Fawkes

Posted on: 09 July 2011 by naim_nymph

Posted on: 10 July 2011 by Gale 401

The Stones box set is back up to £269.99.

The WS Elephant is number 1 in their vinyl top ten sellers chart and Robbie is number 8.

Stu.

Posted on: 10 July 2011 by naim_nymph

jpc Germany...

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poproc...Edition/hnum/1440520

have the 18 LP strolling bones box-set for EUR,189.99

and also a 13 LP box set for EUR,153.99

+EUR.5.99 for p&p

HMV state a 14 LP set, but i think this maybe 14 albums ?... 4 being double which would be 18 LP's?

The HMV picture looks like the 18 LP set.

anyway, yesterday i put my order when it was £149.99 + free delivery

so sticky fingers crossed

Debs

Posted on: 15 July 2011 by Gale 401

This box set.

Two 180g vinyl LPs/three CDs and one DVD/12" book and other stuff.

Is down to £24.99 at hmv at the mo.

Its loads more on other sites.

Posted on: 17 July 2011 by Gale 401

You can still buy the original pressing of this great album

for 1p from amazon sellers.

Posted on: 18 July 2011 by Guido Fawkes

I've got that - paid more the 1p for it though on CD - in fact the postage was more than 1p.

Posted on: 22 July 2011 by naim_nymph

Originally Posted by Gale 401:

This box set.

Two 180g vinyl LPs/three CDs and one DVD/12" book and other stuff.

Is down to £24.99 at hmv at the mo.

Its loads more on other sites.

It was a bargain

The HMV Price has gone back up to £74.99

...but still available via Amazon (other sellers) new from £39.46 +p&p

Well done anyone who managed to snip it at 25 quid!

Debs

Posted on: 22 July 2011 by RoyleBlue

Especially those that still get a 10% student discount! Finished the course 3 years ago and the discount still works :-)

Posted on: 26 July 2011 by Gale 401

Originally Posted by RoyleBlue:

Especially those that still get a 10% student discount! Finished the course 3 years ago and the discount still works :-)

Yours will have been used to roll a few hundred do me goods on and stuck together with beer and wine

Posted on: 27 August 2011 by naim_nymph

Miles Davis Quintet 1956 - 68

6 x CD box-set

(This title will be released on September 12, 2011)

Pre-order from Amazon ~ £12.96

I thought it was a bargain when i purchased an earlier issue of

this box-set a couple of years ago.

~<>~

Also on Amazon (and HMV) are 2 other Miles Davis 6 cd sets...

The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings 1955 - 1961 £10.99

(with John Coltrane)

The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings (with Gil Evans) £10.99

Would a knowledgable forum member please tell me if these two £10.99 box sets about are the same disc's but with different packaging?

I'm itching to buy 'em both but think they may have the same recordings on.

Meanwhile, i've just put my order in for a box of these...

Miles Davis 10 x cd box-set of 20 Classic Albums...

From Amazon + free delivery...£13.42

Debs

Posted on: 05 September 2011 by Gale 401

This great album,

On MFSL vinyl is going cheap at hmv.uk at the mo.

Posted on: 06 September 2011 by Richard Dane

Stu, I just picked up that very B52s album as a sealed original - it sounds great!

Funnily enough I was tempted by some of the new MFSLs, in spite of the fact that I haven't been able to get on with any of the Original Master Recording series (and I'm on a self imposed vinyl buying ban - failing miserably), finding them curiously unengaging compared against originals. As my system has improved over the years, so the MFSLs seem to have gotten worse. Very clean, quiet and initially impressive, but with inferior pitch and timing to these ears. Weird.

Anyway, I've resisted getting any of the silvers so far. I note that many of the new silver series don't come from the original master tapes. Has anyone tried them yet? Debs, I noted that you received some the other day, what do you think?

Posted on: 06 September 2011 by naim_nymph

Originally Posted by Richard Dane:

As my system has improved over the years, so the MFSLs seem to have gotten worse. Very clean, quiet and initially impressive, but with inferior pitch and timing to these ears. Weird.

I think there may some truth in that, Richard.

I saw your original copy of B-52’s you purchased from the charity shop and at the time felt far too envious to say anything to be honest.

I’ve never heard an original vinyl version to compare, but i’d say my MFSL version is very "clean&quiet" but not as punchy as I was expecting, and even though new it may sound better after a good clean, the static did not come free of charge, launching my platter-mat into orbit on both A & B sides.

However, my Dead Can Dance MFSL vinyl impresses greatly in the bass moody moments, they have very good pressings musically although not so quiet for pips & pops here and there…

I think the MFSL is merely a good attempt at manufacturing good audiophile vinyl, but with varying degrees of success and failure.

The best ‘new’ vinyl I enjoy is on Legacy (Sony) Label.

Many of the new Jimi Hendrix are, good value for money too, and they sound almost as good as my older Hendrix on the MCA label.

Debs

Posted on: 07 September 2011 by Richard Dane

Debs thanks. Yes, apologies about the B52s find. I guess it was just my turn to have a lucky day. Frankly I was most surprised to find that it was only the albums I rather fancied that were the sealed ones. The opened Carpenters and Abba LPs I passed on...

A bit of googling shows that the Dead Can Dance MFSL was taken from the master tapes, so that may account for the sound. However, I still think there's something not quite right with MFSLs, although I guess I'll have to try some of the new Silvers to see if that's still the case. It's a great shame because the packaging on the MFSLs, especailly the early issues, was superb, as were the JVC vinyl pressings - still up there with the very best I've seen. My first were Genesis Trick of The Tail, Pink Floyd Dark Side of The Moon, and Al Stewart Year of The Cat. I can still remember the thrill of opening them up for the first time and playing them on my Sony PSX-800 turntable. I thought they sounded fantastic. And over the years I bought more but gradually I began to realise that something wasn't right. It was a back to back listening session I undertook with a Naim distributor one evening that confirmed it - against the originals, or even later normal issues, the MFSLs had lost something fundamental in the "engagement" department. I sold off a number of my MFSLs after that, but still kept a few, in particular those first three, for old times sake, if nothing else.

But I don't want to be too down on MFSL. They have advanced the art of pressing and packaging and for that we should be thankful. It's good to see MFSL back from the dead, and while I so so want to love them, I just wish I knew why these days they don't engage me like they should.

Posted on: 08 September 2011 by naim_nymph

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