"While this is a reasonable compilation of some of Ray Conniff's popular recordings of the 1960s and 1970s, the sound quality is absolutely dreadful.Sony Discos does NOT use the original masters for their compilations. In an effort to clean up the sound, they destroyed these recordings. They all sound bad but the strings on "Nadia's Theme" suffer the most.What is strange is that Sony Discos released an identical CD in 1996 under the title 20 DE COLECCION. Although that one had sound problems too, they were not nearly as prominent as on this collection. Why they tampered with the sound is anyone's guess.All of these songs have been released on CD with wonderful sound by Columbia/Sony. Avoid Sony's Latin label!"