In 1994-1995 Germanofon, who claimed to be based in Luxembourg, managed to get their CDs into many normally respectable music retailers, both brick and mortar and online, who normally would never deal with bootlegs. In reality the Germanofon pressings were bootleg and were invariably mastered from vinyl. Sound quality was highly variable, with some releases sounding fairly good while others were transcriptions of old, severely worn LPs replete with surface noise and distortion.