Dave Lampson wrote:

>[I have several hundred Philips CDs, and can't recall ever getting
>a bad one.  I did however have to return a set of Vaughan Williams
>symphonies on Chandos five times before I got a set with all 6CDs
>playable.  -Dave]

FWIW, when I've had to deal with defective sets (rarely, fortunately),
store personnel have been pretty open to letting me swap just the discs
I have found to be defective, and keeping the ones I've already played.

Of course, that doesn't help if you get five bad copies of disc 3:-(.

Best,
Peter