Customer Rating: 
Summary: I really liked it.
Comment: I took a chance having read some of the other reviews, and I was rewared with a nice collection. I think it is well worth the price.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Best of the Ultra-Budget Sets
Comment: This set is easily the best set of the complete symphonies below $15. And I have tried the Karajan but keep returning to these. A great cycle by a very under-rated conductor.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: not for critical listening.
Comment: and not that I'm a critical listener. I don't know the pieces, but listening on headphones I find the recording quality, mixing, mastering of these discs to be subpar. They are fine for background listening, though, so, with the price, I give 3 stars.
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Summary: Good orchestration, great price, one CD skips...
Comment: Dad and I are novices to classical music, but this set sounds great to us! I tend to go for quality over quantity, but the Hungarian Philharmonic gives me no reason to buy a more expensive set of Beethoven's works, especially when there are so many more composers' sets to buy. I also like having all nine symphonys in one compact set. My one gripe about this set is that one of the five CDs has a flaw in the surface, which causes my player to repeat over and over... Maybe a more expensive set (with implied higher quality CD stamping?) would have been the way to go; it's a hassle returning items when they don't work. Hence, 3 stars rather than 4.
Customer Rating:
Summary: TERRIBLE!!!
Comment: This is an abosolute DISGRACE TO BEETHOVEN'S MUSIC!!! The music is Far below the tempos that Beethoven originally wrote. The quality of the recording equipment is also quite terrible. I was extremely displeased with these pieces. I now have learned a valuable lesson.. NEVER PURCHASE INEXPENSIVE RECORDINGS! They tend to be of poor quality.
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