Among the items that Santa brought our way this year is a CD set that caught my interest last summer when I heard a favorable review on the radio. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Complete Works.
The $135 price seemed all right, until I read the comments on Amazon that it could be had for $100 elsewhere. When it appeared at BJ’s for $100, Santa couldn’t resist. 170 discs! All of them are now installed in my 300-disc Sony CD changer. The set includes a CD-ROM with 800 pages(!) of liner notes and librettos, but unfortunately the music discs don’t have CD-Text, so I had to get out my spare PC keyboard and laboriously type in 170 abbreviations.
If you’re interested in the set, you can read much more at the link above. I’ve scanned some random selections, and all sound super and none are defective. At the moment I give “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Complete Works” a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED rating.
Another fun item delivered by The Man in Red is a Panasonic DMR-ES15S DVD recorder. This was also obtained by Santa at BJ’s, for less than what the Mozart set costs on Amazon. I haven’t played with it too much yet, but my short evaluation is it works great but the analog cable tuner is weak. A DVR it isn’t, but as a VCR replacement it’s absolutely the way to go.