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The only thing i noticed was that some of the rar filenames used the underscore character to separate words while others used the whitespace character. Mercury sublabel, famous for the natural sound achieved by producer couple wilma cozart and robert fine in the 1950s 60s, also reissued on cd. Label hdtracks the worlds greatestsounding music downloads. Jun 21, 2010 i wanted to start a workable thread on the mercury living presence sacds.