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nick
Virgin remasters can be found on Discogs, eBay, etc in new and used condition. There are even some good deals on those 8 Virgin "1st Collectors Edition" CD's. The 2nd batch of Japan SACD's are very good and yes while expensive, a box of those would be extremely pricey also.
I don't know what quality the Italian Box is but it's not official and Discogs won't allow any sales of it.
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24FPS
All Stones recordings from the Golden Age should be on Blu Ray. I have Exile on Blu Ray and it's fantastic. Only Grrrr and Let It Bleed are also available on Blu Ray.
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ironbelly
Technically, there were no big boxes on Virgin. Those CDs were sold separately but a pair SF/EOMS in outer paper sleeve and Japanese 2005 A Bigger Bang World Tour 2005-2006 [TOCP-66451/58]
[www.discogs.com]
This one contains only 8 studio albums.
On the other hand there were two European boxes on CBS
The CBS Collection [465 892 2] (10 studio albums)
[www.discogs.com]
and
Collection 1971-1989 [466 918 2] (15CDs in total, all studio, live and bonus disc with rarities)
[www.discogs.com]
Both are OOP but they are not an impossible find. Sometime those are reasonably priced even sealed.
They contain old good CBS mastering from 1986. Some discs are better than Virgin, some are worth. But all sound warm.
For London period this is an ultimate collector's candy
It is called Jeans Box. It was sold in Germany as mail-in-order from Die Zeit. It contains all 22 albums re-issued in 2002. Dual layer SACD-hybrid CDs in digipaks. I believe, discs in that box came with the Certificates of Authenticity. Most probably you will not get a complete puzzle, but you'll have a couple of duplicates to trade . Sure, it is not cheap. The last one on ebay was 300 Euros.
The other SACD-hybrid official box
Remastered Series [0602498147344]
[www.discogs.com]
contains only 16 CDs. God knows why but usually it is more expensive than Jeans Box.
That Italian box... I would call it 'budget' option. For DECCA-London period 2002 remaster was used. For RSR era - 2009 Universal brickwalled remaster. All CDs are redbook only, packed in paper sleeves of reasonable quality.
Japanese boxes usually are way overpriced. Mind that Japanese In Studio - Greatest Album From The '70s to '00s [UICY 91558/71] came with 2009 Universal brickwalled mastering.
Otherwise, you can always purchase individual CD and load them in a travel case like.
[www.perel.eu]
and design the outer side of the travel case the way you like it
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doitywoik
They were sold separately but each album came in its individual plexiglass slipcase (mini-box, so to say) because of the paper sleeves.
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24FPS
All Stones recordings from the Golden Age should be on Blu Ray. I have Exile on Blu Ray and it's fantastic. Only Grrrr and Let It Bleed are also available on Blu Ray.
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Irix
With declining physical media it's questionable if there's enough demand for new CD-Boxes ....
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marianna
There may be less demand for physical media overall, but some boxed sets sell well enough to make them very profitable.
Let me remind you that official 2016 The Rolling Stones In Mono was priced around $150 (or 150 Euros in the EU). It sells rather poor. I believe some 700 were sold during the 1st week (my memory could serve me wrong but I believe this number was announced here).Quote
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Irix
With declining physical media it's questionable if there's enough demand for new CD-Boxes ....
Legacy act boxed sets are priced high enough that any costs in preparing and duplicating them is only a small fraction of the sale price.
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ironbellyLet me remind you that official 2016 The Rolling Stones In Mono was priced around $150 (or 150 Euros in the EU). It sells rather poor. I believe some 700 were sold during the 1st week (my memory could serve me wrong but I believe this number was announced here).Quote
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Irix
With declining physical media it's questionable if there's enough demand for new CD-Boxes ....
Legacy act boxed sets are priced high enough that any costs in preparing and duplicating them is only a small fraction of the sale price.
Within 2-3 weeks after official release internet was full of Chinese fakes priced between $30 and $50.
That was ABKCO but anyway...
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peoplewitheyes
Hey, Irix, what is 'synch'? (from the pie chart you posted). Thanks
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ironbellyLet me remind you that official 2016 The Rolling Stones In Mono was priced around $150 (or 150 Euros in the EU). It sells rather poor. I believe some 700 were sold during the 1st week (my memory could serve me wrong but I believe this number was announced here).Quote
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Irix
With declining physical media it's questionable if there's enough demand for new CD-Boxes ....
Legacy act boxed sets are priced high enough that any costs in preparing and duplicating them is only a small fraction of the sale price.
Within 2-3 weeks after official release internet was full of Chinese fakes priced between $30 and $50.
That was ABKCO but anyway...
All these Box Sets are for very few people, not more than 10,000 copies worldwide.
The Stones' mono box set sold 700 copies in the UK during the first week (it charted at #130 in the albums chart) and less than 200 copies the second week.
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ironbellyLet me remind you that official 2016 The Rolling Stones In Mono was priced around $150 (or 150 Euros in the EU). It sells rather poor. I believe some 700 were sold during the 1st week (my memory could serve me wrong but I believe this number was announced here).Quote
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Irix
With declining physical media it's questionable if there's enough demand for new CD-Boxes ....
Legacy act boxed sets are priced high enough that any costs in preparing and duplicating them is only a small fraction of the sale price.
Within 2-3 weeks after official release internet was full of Chinese fakes priced between $30 and $50.
That was ABKCO but anyway...
All these Box Sets are for very few people, not more than 10,000 copies worldwide.
The Stones' mono box set sold 700 copies in the UK during the first week (it charted at #130 in the albums chart) and less than 200 copies the second week.
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ironbelly
That Italian box... I would call it 'budget' option. For DECCA-London period 2002 remaster was used. For RSR era - 2009 Universal brickwalled remaster. All CDs are redbook only, packed in paper sleeves of reasonable quality.
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ironbellyLet me remind you that official 2016 The Rolling Stones In Mono was priced around $150 (or 150 Euros in the EU). It sells rather poor. I believe some 700 were sold during the 1st week (my memory could serve me wrong but I believe this number was announced here).Quote
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Irix
With declining physical media it's questionable if there's enough demand for new CD-Boxes ....
Legacy act boxed sets are priced high enough that any costs in preparing and duplicating them is only a small fraction of the sale price.
Within 2-3 weeks after official release internet was full of Chinese fakes priced between $30 and $50.
That was ABKCO but anyway...
All these Box Sets are for very few people, not more than 10,000 copies worldwide.
The Stones' mono box set sold 700 copies in the UK during the first week (it charted at #130 in the albums chart) and less than 200 copies the second week.
...and half of those people post or lurk on this site.
I believe both versions - Italian and French are of the same quality. And both looks like local parer (or magazine) promo action. Like the one from Greece a few years back. But French seem to be a bit more expensive.Quote
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ironbelly
That Italian box... I would call it 'budget' option. For DECCA-London period 2002 remaster was used. For RSR era - 2009 Universal brickwalled remaster. All CDs are redbook only, packed in paper sleeves of reasonable quality.
I missed out the Italian box completely, but last year I was able to buy a couple of CDs in France form a similar (identical?) French box. They were sold individually at normal newsstands for only a few euros.
Got to say that the paper sleeves were very well done!
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