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. -----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Don Cox Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 11:40 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Save the Unicorns 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 -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]