Listening to quite a few Mozart symphonies via Bruno with a B. I'm getting close to being through all the mono stuff. And then most of the stereo are redos of the mono so that will be interesting. The fun of the original jacket thing is that the CDs also replicate the original LP label - so about twenty-seven discs have the really old blue mono label, then another twenty have the gray mono. They really do these right and frankly I don't know how any of these humungous box sets can make money - they press a certain number and never re-press, which is why even a year later some quadruple in value, which I think will happen to the Walter set in about a year. And clearly, speculators are purchasing extras because the ones that are priced highest are still sealed. But getting the original jacket art and liner notes, a huge hardcover book, sturdy packaging, full color labels - and then selling it so that the CDs average about 2.50 per CD or less is just amazing to me. Then again, Sony owns their own pressing plants so that lessens those costs and they also own the recordings, so it's just a question of remastering.
