Too bad. 
As you can imagine we would have loved to take a pass at these.

They deserve hi rate hi bit archiving.

On Feb 19, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> No, they are the 1990's remasters done by the original producer, from first-generation tapes whenever possible (90+% of the time; a handful of titles had to be made from 2-track tapes made at the time of LP mastering due to the fact that the first-generation masters were lost). As far as I know, they are also using CD manufacturing parts approved in the 1990's.
> 
> -- Tom Fine
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamie Howarth" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 4:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Mercury 51-CD box set now officially set for USA and Europe markets
> 
> 
>> Are these new transfers?
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Feb 19, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Gene Baron <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Just noticed that Amazon (US site) has lowered the pre-order price for this
>>> to $100.34 -- wow.
>>> 
>>> Gene
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Don Cox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 31/01/2012, Roderic G Stephens wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but it doesn't look like SACD's are on
>>>>> their way out, yet.
>>>>> 
>>>> It's the "long tail". You can make money from a niche market if you do
>>>> it right.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>> --
>>>> Don Cox
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>>>>