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==> Remember that these are mostly amateur recordings made on whatever analog equipment was available at the time the performance occurred. An audience recording can never be perfect, so even the best recordings may have some imperfections. An awesome audience recording is about as good as a great sound board. If a Sbd recording has been given less than A -, that usually means the recording suffers from tape hiss or some other fault.
In general, all recordings I've given B+ or better grade are very listenable regardless of source.

Aud=audience Sbd=soundboard Fm=radio TV=television broadcast Pro=professional recording Pri=hand-held video

Key To My Sound Grading

Note that I only refer to sound quality, compared to the rest of my collection.
These ratings are of course subjective, but they should be at least somewhat accurate. This scale I'm using is my combination of several grading systems I've seen other traders using.

A+ ~ A ==> Perfect
Like it's said above! These are most frequently from soundboard, TV / FM broadcasts, etc. Also the few absolutely perfect audience recordings.

A- ~ B+ ==> Great
Some minor flaws can't ruin the listening pleasure. A good source, but there could be a few minor problems, such as slightly intrusive audience noise or occasional minor tape faults/slight hiss and microphone movements, etc. Nothing really disturbing.

B ~ B- ==> OK
Tolerable recording. Possibly a reasonable source, but with a few more problems. These may include a much narrower dynamic range, more intrusive audience noise, repetitive tape faults/hiss and microphone movements, etc.

C+ ==> Fair
Major problems, but still a listenable recording for the properly motivated. These sources could possibly have some major faults and be several generations down. Problems may include severe tape distortion / tape hiss, excessive audience noise, and other such problems.

C ==> Poor
Only for die-hards, or for those with a personal interest in the date and place! Recorded with poor device, weak signal, there's huge amount of tape hiss (very generated copy) or something like that. Blatant occurrences of many of the problems detailed above.

This evil dot means that the recording suffers from some annoying faults, such as gaps between songs, cut/skipping tracks or digi-noise. My copy may probably be burned from MP3's - has those slight annoying clicks between every track - Not recommended, replacement needed!