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"Oregonian Haruspex" wrote in message
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On 2014-01-26 19:24:58 +0000, news said:

The CBS Sunday Morning show today had a segment on the state of the music
business today. They start it out with a visit to a high end store in New
York where the first image you see is a turntable that has a foot tall
cylinder for a platter. Next comes their CD player that is composed of 5
boxes on a spiked stand. Stick with me - they show the listening room
with a
pair of what appear to be Shahinian obelisks, pardon if I am wrong, don't
keep up with all that. Then the interviewer asks the "expert" how much a
CD
player like that might run - "Oh about 100,000." And the whole system?
"A
quarter of a million."

They explain that it's necessary, of course, if you want the best sound,
but
then go on to show all of the sources for streaming audio that you can
have
for free and put on your i-Phone and listen anywhere, anytime. The
royalties
on a tune might be 6/10 of a cent, but there are more plays, and it IS
MP3
after all, so what do you want? (my comments).

This is what the recording industry is up against now.

Gary Eickmeier

The recording industry was always about churning out the lowest quality
noise on the cheapest media possible. There are so few exceptions that
they could all be named in a breath.

Oh the poor music listener, never knowing the pleasure of hearing their
pablum on Class A tube amps!

Oh the poor music lover being told that it is necessary to spend a quarter
of a million to get good sound. What does that do to our cause? That plus
making us look like crazies.

Gary Eickmeier