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In Reply to: Side 1-2, 3-4 Versus 1-4, 2-3 posted by mr.bear on October 23, 2016 at 16:26:06:
The six disc set of the six Tchaikovsky symphonies on Mercury (Dorati/LSO) has all six symphonies split across 2 discs. On top of having to fish out 2 discs to play a symphony, they are numbered 1/12, 2/11, etc., so that if you flip over the 2 discs that play symphony #1, do you get #2? No, you get symphony #6. There's a special place in hell for the guy who came up with this idea. The only time this would make sense is if you had a changer and wanted to listen to all six symphonies in a row. The problem is that the set is so damned good that I have to put up with it. I did learn to put the discs into inner sleeves where you can see both labels. I had them in rice paper sleeves and it almost drove me nuts trying to play them.If you go back to the 78 era, it gets even weirder. There were two different kinds of changers, "drop" changers, the more common type, and "slide" changers. They required two different side arrangements for you to be able to flip the stack over and play the second half of the recording. Drop changers needed 1/6 2/5 3/4, while slide changers needed 1/4 2/5 3/6. Record companies issued sets in both formats.
Edits: 10/23/16
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