The World's Greatest Tenors [Box set] Review

I was very pleased to purchase this set on ebay for less than $20.00.
Recognize, first, that many of these are vintage recordings, with vintage sound.And, tenor fanatics will always question who are considered the world's greatest tenors.
This is a seven-disc set.One disc each is given to Caruso, Gigli, Richard Tauber, and Joseph Schmidt.John MacCormack and Richard Crooks share one disc.Another is the Carreras-Domingo-Pavarotti triumvirate.However, the Carreras portion, which comprises almost half of the disc, is entirely scenes from live performances, not tenor arias.The seventh (actually numbered Disc 6) is called simply "Great Tenors" and provides some additional Crooks, Tauber, and Gigli, plus Bjoerling, Di Stefano, Peerce, Schipa, and ... Luigi Infantino, Derek Oldham,and Heddle Nash?No sign of Gedda, Kraus, Tucker, Bergonzi, del Monaco, or Corelli.
Basically, the problem for me is that most of what is included here is duplication of what was already in my collection.Every tenor on these recordings is represented more completely in other recordings--even Infantino and Oldham, although these two more sparsely than the others.
Would I purchase it again?For $95.00--definitely not.For $20.00--perhaps, if what I wanted was a sampling of great tenor singing, without investing in a larger collection.

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