Phil Collins The Singles 180g 4LP Box Set - Rare and Highly Sought After

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Up for sale is a Brand new, sealed in factory wrap copy of Phil Collins' "The Hits", 4 LP set with Featuring Sticker. 

This 4x LP set is highly regarded in the audiophile community for it's incredible dynamic range and attention to detail.  It is out of print and no longer in stock except on the second hand market.

This was given to me as a gift a year ago - originally purchased from Amazon - but at that time my turntable was not functioning.  I've been downsizing my collection, trying to boost up some funds for health issues and as much as I absolutely hate to let this extremely rare, extremely collectible LP set go, I really just can't afford to keep it when I don't have a turntable to play it on.

London, May 2016: Phil Collins’ entire back catalogue of eight solo albums was recently remastered at Abbey Road studios and is being re-released by Warner Music digitally, on CD and on special half-speed-mastered vinyl throughout 2016, with the digital and CD versions featuring previously unreleased demos and live versions. The entire project has been curated by Collins himself.

Long-time Collins collaborator, Grammy-nominated Genesis producer and soundman Nick Davis oversaw the nine-month remastering project with Abbey Road Mastering engineer Miles Showell. “Miles and Abbey Road were a great combination for this project as their attention to detail is second to none. I know I can trust Miles to do excellent work and the technical excellence of Abbey Road Studios means I trust the files are in good hands,” comments Davis. “The albums were a delight to work on as there is so much great material on them, a depth of music that goes far beyond the mainstream singles. Miles was my first choice for this remastering as I love his half-speed vinyl cutting.”

“It’s been a interesting series of remasters,” comments Showell from his mastering room at Abbey Road. “There were a lot of technical changes happening over the period from 1980 to 2010 when these albums were first recorded. You see that in how the albums were recorded — it was Face Value, of course, that really took drums to the next level and kicked off the big 80s fashion for drum sounds with gated reverb on them, like on ‘In The Air Tonight’ — and it’s also reflected in the media the masters are stored on.”

The tapes for Face Value and Hello, I Must Be Going were the only two analogue album masters in Phil’s back catalogue. The rest, with the exception of Collins’ 2010 covers album Going Back, which was a higher-resolution digital master, were recorded to Sony digital tapes at the CD standard sampling rate of 16-bit, 44.1kHz. Paradoxically, this meant that the tapes recorded more recently were sometimes more troublesome to remaster than the oldest two albums in the series. “Those old digital tapes can be very problematic on playback,” explains Showell. “If the machines have crunched the tape at some stage in the past, and there are dropouts, if they’re bad enough that the error correction on the machine can’t reconstitute the bit stream, there's nothing you can do to retrieve the audio information.”

Because of these challenges, the first thing Showell did was to record high-resolution versions of the albums on the SADiE 6 workstation in his studio at Abbey Road, so he could work on the albums without having to keep playing the potentially problematic master tapes. The two analogue-mastered albums were mastered to 24-bit, 96kHz files via Abbey Road's externally word-clocked Benchmark Audio converters, and the later digital album masters were upsampled to 96kHz.

Source: https://www.emusician.com/artists/abbey-road-remasters-phil-collins-solo-catalogue

Here's a list of features and songs according to this site (http://www.elusivedisc.com/Phil-Collins-The-Singles-180g-4LP-Box-Set/productinfo/RHILP94590/):

Features:
• 4LP Box Set
• 180g Audiophile Vnyl
• Re-mastered by Nick Davis

Selections:
Side A:
1. Easy Lover
2. Two Hearts
3. Sussudio
4. I Missed Again
5. Wear My Hat
Side B:
6. Don't Lose My Number
7. You Can't Hurry Love
8. Something Happened On The Way To Heaven
9. We Wait And We Wonder

Side C:
1. Can't Stop Loving You
2. Dance Into The Light
3. It's In Your Eyes
4. Hang In Long Enough
Side D:
5. Thru These Walls
6. I Wish It Would Rain Down
7. Both Sides Of The Story
8. (Love Is Like A) Heatwave

Side E:
1. Going Back
2. In The Air Tonight
3. Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
4. If Leaving Me Is Easy
Side F:
5. One More Night
6. Separate Lives
7. A Groovy Kind Of Love
8. That's Just The Way It Is

Side G:
1. Do You Remember?
2. Everyday
3. True Colors
4. You'll Be In My Heart
Side H:
5. The Least You Can Do
6. Look Through My Eyes
7. Another Day In Paradise
8. Take Me Home

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