Hi Tony. I’ve ordered the box set from Amazon Italy and it arrived today. First I can tell you that it’s a USA press, not European so before playing the records I prayed for a good batch! Well, all in all they’re very good (I could only listen to TTR, SFY, CTY N&T and Horizon so far). N&T and Horizon are perfect. No clicks or pops. TTR is the weakest regarding sound quality as the song Ticket to Ride has some clicks at the beginning but then they fade away. The rest of the tracks in the albums I’ve listened to have the normal quality that is expected in most records nowadays. I’m happy with what I’ve already listened. The artwork, as been reported before, is excellent recreating the original one, with the exception of the barcodes that I hate them (why why on earth include them on the cover and not on the plastic cover??? ... It’s beyond my understanding). So far Amazon Italy is the web store that has the cheapest price of the box set in Europe (or so I’ve seen)If anybody has ordered the vinyl collection with spin cds you will not be getting it.
I rang them today and they have cancelled all pre orders due to the fact that the price they were promised by their supplier was not honoured.
Well that’s their excuse anyway......
This is not the first time I have had problems with them and I will not be using them again.
Getting back to the sound quality issues, I was thinking of ordering from Amazon Italy but having read some of the posts can anybody give any advice as I was really looking forward to getting this set and now having read that replacements are being sent out for various LPs I don’t know what to do.