Nobody Wants Mono
On Apr 26, 9:34*pm, Boon wrote:
On Apr 26, 8:34*pm, Bret L wrote:
*In England especially there is a monophile cult but there is no mass
mono market today.
*Buyers would almost all rather have fake stereo than real mono.
*This is an interesting phenomenon. It is related to colorization of
movies, which purists decried. Old time movie fans mostly really
didn't care. On the old TV sets-which was how you watched old movies,
only NYC and SFO had cinemas running old films-you just turned the
color level down and you had black and white.
First you say "nobody" wants mono. Then you say there is "no mass
market today." Those statements are contradictory. Try again.
Any reasonable person would understand that "nobody" in this instance
means that the percentage of would be buyers of mono is so low that
supplying it would be generally cost ineffective. Yes, there is
SOMEBODY that wants the mono, but most of them want the OLD vinyl in
the first place. A hundred people out of a couple million is not an
effective market.
Some people would like to have shellac 78s, wide groove, to play on
Victrolas, some people would like cylinders, some would like 8 tracks,
some 4 track or broadcast cart, some would really go for open reel.
Not enough.
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