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Experience crisp, pure audio with this Onkyo C7030 CD player that features VLSC (Vector Linear Shaping Circuitry) for pulse noise reduction. The shuffle function mixes up your CD tracks for random playback.
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from Washington dc
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It loads fast, it feels sturdy and reliable, and it doesn’t have a lot of wacko gimmicky features you never use anyway. I am completely happy with this CD player. Simple and direct, the way life ought to be.
My Best Buy number: 2362232877
My Best Buy number: 2362232877
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![Herbert Von Karajan: Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9, Op.125, "Choral" [DVD] [1983]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/1141/11419226_sa.jpg)
Herbert von Karajan leads the Berlin Philharmonic through a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on this DVD. The disc contains a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1, while French and Dutch soundtracks have been rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. Subtitles are accessible in all three of those languages as well. Supplemental materials include biographies of the composer and the major performers. This is an outstanding disc for classical music enthusiasts.
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Great performance, odd video
on January 29, 2017
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Aurally, there is much to enjoy. The orchestra sounds great, and the soloists are fine. The engineering is wonderful, with close-up miking bringing out lots of vivid detail without sounding overly clinical. This is a typical great Karajan performance.
Visually, it is a combination of live performance and after-the-fact studio reenactments of certain moments to focus one's attention on the woodwinds or the trumpets or whatever. That these inserts were staged is obvious by the reseatings of the players into perfect rows of rigidly held poses. I was disturbed by the technique, in which players appear to be performing under duress in unnatural positions. It struck me as pointless jiggering and unnecessary manipulation.
The camera focuses on the conductor excessively. It is sort of interesting that he holds a baton without actually doing very much with it, since the hands themselves do all the communicating quite adequately. I do like the way that Karajan began the fourth movement hard on the heels of the conclusion of the third was preserved unedited.
Though filmed in front of an audience, the applause at the end is not included. You expect a response to this Ode to Joy, and the silence you get instead dilutes the Joy. In short, you will enjoy this performance quite well on musical terms alone, but the thrill and sense of occasion is lacking.
My Best Buy number: 2362232877
My Best Buy number: 2362232877
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![Roxy: The Movie [Original Soundtrack] [Blu-Ray Disc]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/4586/4586911_sa.jpg)
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What a fun evening, and with the meandering on-stage cameras you feel like you're right there. The music is great and the musicians are great, with none of the bitterness and over-the-top raunchiness that marred so many performances in Frank's later years. And the part with the audience participation is hilarious. Enjoy!
My Best Buy number: 2362232877
My Best Buy number: 2362232877
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