Mine looks fine from the bottom, but the top shows discoloration, a brassy
tint, worse at the outside, less toward the middle. dBpoweramp has been
working now for 3 hours on track 1 (mvmnt III) and is still trying. This is
the Souvenir Series of 1988. This third has also appeared in a complete
Mahler Sym box set, but hasn't been reissued as a separate item, AFAIK.

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On 07/08/2013, Carl Pultz wrote:

> Sure thing, Don. We JH fans are on a mission. (Is Jerry Bruck on this
> list?)
>
> There doesn't appear to be a Windows version, but what they are trying
> to say is that the disc image that ddrescue creates can be accessed in
> Windows.

It should be a standard ISO image file.


Do we have any idea what the physical mechanism is in this deterioration?

The disc looks perfectly normal with no visible damage at all.

I am trying it under the program EAC, which uses a similar retry method.
So far after several hours it has "read" less than 1% of the first
track, so I am not optimistic. This is in a Plextor drive, which should
do retries itself.

Also checking my copies of Symphonies 1 and 6 and a Robert Simpson CD.

Regards
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Don Cox
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