> <dar...@live.com> wrote in message
>
> news:701dafd7-b954-4d87-871c-fa21dc39ed0f@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> On Jul 2, 9:56 am, "donpaolo" <donpa...@erols.com> wrote:
>
> > NONSENSE
>
> > Over many, many years, Premiere & Ed;s other companies have proven to be
> > reliable, honest & willing to please their customers!
>
> I'm the one who wrote the original post. As I said, I'm still hoping
> you and others are right about Ed and that he will eventually deal
> honestly with me. But the plain facts of the matter are, as of today,
> Premiere Opera has had my money since 3/18 and has not sent my order
> (11 DVDs). I've been emailing almost daily for two full weeks (and
> even found out their telephone number off of another internet site and
> left voice mail yesterday), asking them to cancel my order and issue a
> refund. That's when the email replies from them dried up. Not a good
> sign, in my opinion, but I'm still somewhat hopeful and will update
> the thread by Friday with any news.
>
> As for learning how to listen to older recordings, made before the
> technology was perfected, I understand and agree with you 100%. I own
> everything commercially available by Caruso and Ponselle, two of my
> very favorites. And yes, after a short while, your brain stops hearing
> the hisses and clicks and you can truly appreciate the beauty of the
> voices. My complaint was regarding a very recent concert DVD with
> Renee Fleming and Jean-Yves Thibaudet which was obviously recorded off
> of a BBC television broadcast. I just didn't expect something so
> recently recorded to be so badly done, and I mean very badly. If it
> were Caruso on that DVD, believe me, I'd treasure it. But being that
> there are plenty of commercially available Fleming DVDs, with superb
> sound and picture, this becomes a different matter altogether.
> Thanks for your response and, again, I've got my fingers crossed that
> this situation with be resolved happily.
>
> This poor guy
>- idiot.
