Anyone here have experience with the Denon DP-35F?

No, that's them...

The set I purchased have Grey covers and are dated mostly 1988.

The performances are more lively than constrained and they sound as good (or better) than the Sony Music and Musical Heritage Society CD's that I have.

DeKay

There were a substantial amount of bad reviews, and they seemed centered around the mastering code rather than the actual quality. Since you have them, are you able to tell if they're AAD or ADD? Not that it really matters, but I'm just interested in knowing. 

BTW, at $20 / 100 discs, you scored pretty good there, pal. 

I just pulled a couple dozen and they are all marked (DDD), which was one of their marketing lies.

Per the WWW blurb they were mostly digitalized from analog recordings and from the sound quality I suspect that they were harvested from master and/or early generation tapes.

Considering that the recordings are said to be (in reality) of less than main orchestras I also assume that they did not pay much for the tapes.

Part of the sound quality comes from how they seem to be minimally mike’d as well.

I live in West Hollywood, CA so in the past 30 years have had local access to well stocked thrift shops/flea markets/estate-yard sales.

Also, what I was trying to get at is that if I listened to a lot of classical music on LP I would probably go for a different type of cartridge sound (different than what I prefer with popular music - which is a more fleshed out type of sound).

DeKay