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From: man@bocar.UUCP (M Nevar)
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Subject: Re: CD's:  The heresy unfolds
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 09:09:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 09:09:26 1985
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I don't know if this will reduce the validity of your conclusions, but here
is some stuff I heard while looking for a DSotM CD.  I was in a hi-end store
with a friend looking for speaker stands and I saw a copy of Dark Side with
a Mobile Fidelity sticker on it.  I was ready to put out the bucks, when the
salesman came over and started talking about the disk.  He told me that this
disk was not from the same master as the LP.  Further, he said, the LP and
the UHQR were from different masters.  The CD was being made by someone else
and MF was just distributing it !!  He also told me that there are 4 masters
to this album.  An American, a Japanise, a German, and an English.  The English
is supposed to be the creme de la creme.  He owns all four and did a ABCD 
test on them and the English version is the best.  Whichever one MF used for
their vinyl, it wasn't the English one, he said.  Also, MF cannot produce any
more DSotM albums (let alone CD's) because their contract allowed only so 
many.  So, I was on a mission.  I had to find the English version on CD.
Well, I never found it.  I did find the LP version, but I didn't buy it (19.00)..
So, you may have different versions of the masters, but I don't know, and 
I doubt that you can find out.  The salesman told me that all 4 masters were
out there on CD somewhere.

Now, my question.  Does anyone know where I can get DSotM on CD from the
English master ??????