[Harry Lavo]

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Harry Lavo" wrote in message


That's a reasonable position, Dick. All I am saying she
is well positioned to judge as opposed to many other of
us. I just found it another in an interesting string of
antecdotes the pickup in this market over the last
five or so years. She struck me as a reasonably
well-positioned source.

I question the logic. The management of a single retail store or a small
retail chain is basically just one small data point.

Agreed to the single point, but this does happen to be the largest music
retailer in NYC.....not exactly podunk, Iowa.

Furthermore, anybody whose making money selling a certain kind of product
is
obviously biased.

J&R sells everything electronic, everything music, everything photo,
everything kitchen, every.....man, that's a lot of biases!


Let's face it, only a miniscule percentage of all retailers of media or
audio electronics even bother with vinyl any more.

More and more every year...even Barnes and Noble, about as conservative a
music retailer as there is, is experimenting. And I daresay there are many
more doing so today than ten years ago.

When you see a news story about LPs, ask yourself - would this be news if
it
wasn't about LPs? What makes it news is how improbable it is, all other
things considered.

Certainly is improbably....after all, "Perfect Sound Forever" was supposed
to do in vinyl. It was buried by the press and by engineering types like
yourself....and flowers planted on it. Funny thing happened though. The
ground heaved, and up she came again.....not quite her old self, but living
and breathing. What's not to marvel over/do a story about?


Not directly related, but I have a young son (age 25) who
is a musician and has his own band, and he was telling me
of the vinyl resurgence five years ago (we never talked
about it, so he didn't know that I already knew something
about it although he did know I still had a lot of
records, many of which I played from time to time). He
asked me at that time for a turntable, and as a result,
received a Dual 704 with Shure cartridge that I had
bought and was planning to resell on ebay.

Letsee, like father, like son?

Quite possibly, but the impetus seemed to come from a musician friend who
had started amassing his own vinyl collection. He had never shown much
interest in my vinyl or record playing gear.


My daughter
(age 29) came in one day about two years ago with a bag
containing seven used LP's that she had bought....mostly
early '70's rock. She currently does not have her own
apartment, so her stereo is in storage. She asked me to
transfer them to CD so she could play them in her car.

That makes sense, and just shows how unusable LPs are by modern standards.

Do you understand the definition of "non-sequitor"?


Her comment: I wish cars still came with cassette
decks...I liked them better.

She obviously never saw the many cassettes, twisted tape hanging out like
a
long skinny banner, that ended up on the sides of many a busy road, thrown
there in fits of absolute frustration.

Neither have I, and I lived through the cassette period. She simply
expressed a preference....I didn't grill her to find out why. I assumed
nostalgia for when she was a little girl and used to bring her cassettes
along on trips. But who knows, maybe she's just another budding, totally
irrational audiophile, out to annoy you.