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The old ways …

Some call it blind luck or even happy accident, but I would rather call it record-collecting. I have on high rotation a beautifully recorded and pressed copy of Vivaldi that I bought at a local tip shop for $2. This recording has spellbinding musical passages and dynamic range unheard of in some digital versions.

I wonder why this record was

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