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Sat, 6 Mar 2004 23:20:09 +0000
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Donald Satz <[log in to unmask]>
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John Smyth writes:

>No performance after 1960 is ever good enough for you guys, yet when
>a company tries to give you the best remasterings they can from those
>wonderful days of yore, no one will pay 'cause it's too expensive.

It's not 1960, but 1964 (Klemperer's Magic Flute).  I don't consider
these continuous remasterings an indication of trying to do the best for
consumers, the basic motivation being to get us to keep buying the same
performance over and over again.

Don Satz
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