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What about the Decca Sound box instead?

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woober goober

In Reply to: RE: CD-Only Box Set of Mercury Living Presence; $99 for 50 CDs posted by John Marks on March 06, 2012 at 09:20:39

I too am "classically ignorant" but willing to expand my horizons. I've been satisfied with the audio quality of the few Decca recordings already in my collection. Is the recording quality up to par with the Mercury? Is the music offerred in the Decca box set as worthy as the Mercury?

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Thanks Chris and Daverz - saving my pennies for the Decca box -nt - woober goober 17:21:21 03/11/12 (0)
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Decca simply has a much larger catalog to draw from... - Daverz 14:51:38 03/09/12 (0)
So the quality of performances is higher. You also get some more recent recordings.

Though the Mercury recordings *are* classics, many of them wouldn't be my first choices for those pieces, and the sonics are not always to my taste. Also some of the music is probably not immediately of interest to the beginning collector. I think Decca's selection of works is more interesting.

I much prefer Decca's sonics, and the selection there is of some of their best recordings as recordings.
Some folks prefer Decca - they had their own "Golden Age" too [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 09:49:47 03/08/12 (0)

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