There's a serious mastering or manufacturing problem with the Byrds - Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1971 CD, at least with the first edition issued in mid 2008.I've now had two copies of this CD, and both have had severe skipping problems during track 19, "Amazing Grace," starting at about 1:20. The problem starts with digital "clicking" and progresses into bad skipping, with the elapsed time actually stopping at one point. Both CDs I've tried have had exactly the same problem, so it's clearly a mastering or manufacturing, and not simply a defective individual CD.I'm now going to return my second CD and request a refund rather than another replacement copy. This is a real shame, because the music on this CD (as on other Sundazed releases) is superb. I am hopeful that Sundazed will fix the problem and reissue this CD, because it's well worth having for the excellent music. Five stars for the music, but NO stars for the defective CDs.
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