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On 19 Apr 2005 23:54:39 GMT, wrote:
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
Heads up now, what really launched CD into
the mass market was *classical* music listeners, i.e. people who live
with live music.
Stewert gets his facts wrong again. What really launched CD into the
masss market was the availablity of portable CD players and car CD
players. The classical music listeners are very much a niche market
that barely impact the commercial scene over all. By the way, many
classical music lovers do not spend much time with live music.
This comes from a guy who has just attempted to tell someone who
*owns* a grand piano, what sustained notes from it sound like......
Unfortunately for Wheeler, he doesn't get to write history books, and
the plain *facts* of the matter are that CD sales in the first two
years were below predictions, until the word began to spread among
classical music lovers that this new medium simply did not suffer from
wow and flutter (which, contrary to Wheeler's bizarre opinion, are
horribly destructive of solo piano music), and had such low background
noise that all kinds of musical subtleties became noticeable, which
had previously been swamped by surface noise. It was the classical
market which dragged CD out of the red in the early years, and
everyone but you is well aware of this - ask any record store owner
who was in business in the '80s, or of course go straight to RIAA
sales archives.
Certainly portable players and car players helped to boost volumes,
but note that they did not become widespread (especially car players),
until well after CD was firmly established.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering
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