This is my own
list of what can be called 'a collection'. First of all, I am interested
in selling and/or trading CDs from my personal archives. If you're interested,
please view the list
to explore items I have to trade. I need to recover the capital I initially
spent putting these titles into my collection over years. Please email
me immediately if you are interested in these original CDs at abracadabra@argenteumastrum.com
and I will respond as soon as possible. I do prefer PayPal but I can
accept money orders exceptionally. I will not be responsible for lost
packages overseas unless they are insured or sent express mail service
I am a completist
and mainly interested in low gens. Since trading means free, legal exchange
of fan-made concert tapes, radio or TV broadcasts and material that
was never - and will never be - officially released, I am glad to may
offer something for the others.
Due to these
facts, I am an active trader and I am always very interested of getting
something I do not have yet. Due to the time required to manage my own
responsibilities I am usually very busy and trading will take me some
time although all requests will be fulfilled as quick as possible. All
the titles are listed chronogically. Each time low gen preceded manufactured
title if any. I use (0) either for analog and digital lineages.
Now
a few words about hoarding. I don't understand the point of it and to
me it just seems a selfish, highly egotistical act, especially in a
community based around a band like Led Zeppelin, where sharing the music
is what it's all about. That said, if someone like man who went through
tons of trouble (time, maybe even money) to get such a recording, it
is right that he has no obligation to let it go. It'd be nice if he
did... indeed, one could argue that the right thing to do would be to
share it. That doesn't mean he has to, however. But this can't determine
the whole community and, especially, defending people who are continuously
keeping unreleased shows for their personal, egoistic purposes.
Thus,
I have to admit if you're looking to do a trade with me, be consious
that I will never accept hoarding and I am not interested to trade for
any stuff that requiries to be continuously hidding away from the community!
My
Own Trade Rules
1. I trade at a
1/1 rate, be they CD-R or DVD-R. I'd now prefer to trade CD-R/DVD-R
full of FLAC/SHN/APE files, but I'll happily still do the odd CD-R
audio trade here and there. I'm also up for online trades (via Bittorrent,
FTP, DC++ etc).
2. I use EAC (Exact Audio Copy) in Secure Mode (read/write offsets
corrected) to extract WAV files onto my hard drive and then burn using
DAO (Disc-At-Once) at 4x speed. When it comes to live recordings,
please always use the DAO mode to avoid the 2 second gaps between
the tracks.
3. No MP3 sourced material. In the past I was not intentionally trading
with MP3 sourced material, but now I have the ability to detect (in
most cases) whether a show has an MP3 lineage or not. There still
may be some of my shows that are actually sourced that way (unknown
to me at the time) and it will be indicated in the comments section,
these will be removed whenever I come across them. If I find what
you have sent me is from MP3 I will stop trading with you automatically.
4. Use a decent media to burn onto please. I use, in most cases, only
high quality Japanese media but I'd also now prefer few of other media
such as Verbatim. Anyway I expect the people to trade with to do the
same.
5. Any faulty discs from my side will be replaced by me and I expect
the same from you.
6. Do not use jewel cases. Just paper sleeves and envelopes. Please
do not write on the discs, either a post-it or a slip of paper in
the case will suffice. Before sending discs, please take so care with
the package.
7. I do not trade any offficial material. Please support the artist(s)
and buy their official output from your local store(s).
Sound
Quality
One person's
ear may hear things differently to someone else so there's no "set
rules" regarding sound quality. My ratings are given based on
the same used on my Help! section, but here's a qucik guide so you
have a rough idea where I am coming from:
- SUPERB (12-11)
- usually reserved for "official release quality" material
only
- EXCELLENT (10-09)
- top quality, no noise/distortion at all
- VERY GOOD (8-7)
- generally good but not professional quality, possible very slight
noise/distortion
- GOOD (6-5) -
all instruments audible with excessive hiss, some compressed sound
or distortion or fair instruments balance and sound quality below
average
- FAIR (4-3) -
poor balance, at least one instrument inaudible, bad distortion
- POOR (2-1) -
only main instrument clearly audible, very distorted with bad hall
ambience or virtually inaudible
If you're accepted
my rules, let's start trade! Click the year that you are ineterested
below and type the item you're interested.