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digital dilemma-cont'd-CD sales DOWN
http://news.com.com/5208-1027-0.html...359&sta rt=-1
http://www.bloglines.com/search?t=1&q=cd+sales downloading is up- meaning digital is becoming an MP3 domain- you fellas call that hi-fi ? Arnie, wassupwithat ? http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/p...512270304/1223 you fellas need to consider this, before you recommend digital formats, and how they are "better"- meanwhile, the lemmings are jumping from your ship by the thousands http://bigpicture.typepad.com/commen...cd_sales_.html CD sales down another 20% and people are asking, is CD dead ? and you call this a good format ? http://news.digitaltrends.com/article12526.html I ask anyone to do a Yahoo or Google search of "CD sales down" or "CD sales drop"- you'll think twice about investing in any more digital sources or recorders http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=CD+...p=mss&ei=UTF-8 http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=...fp-t-501&x=wrt even though SACD, DVD-A, and CD allegedly have this "stellar" sound quality, why arent' they SELLING ? reason- people are slowly going back to analog- my friend's repair shop is FILLED with analog repair jobs- RIGHT NOW the CD players are thrown out, rather than repaired I just saw a Technics CD changer in a thrift, for $15- what's that say ? |
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"jailhouserock" wrote in
message oups.com http://news.com.com/5208-1027-0.html...359&sta rt=-1 http://www.bloglines.com/search?t=1&q=cd+sales downloading is up- meaning digital is becoming an MP3 domain- First off, let's cut out the second-hand crap. Here's the origional news from the horse's mouth. http://www.riaa.com/news/newsletter/...midYrStats.pdf you fellas call that hi-fi ? If you want any respect, stop confusing production people with consumers. Second, if you understood the download market, you'd know that a lot of the downloads aren't MP3s. Arnie, wassupwithat ? The people's voice. you fellas need to consider this, before you recommend digital formats, and how they are "better"- meanwhile, the lemmings are jumping from your ship by the thousands Let's talk about that vanishing line item called *other* which includes your hobby-horse cassettes. Let's talk about that other vanishing line item called "Vinyl Single". What happened there? CD sales down another 20% and people are asking, is CD dead ? You're confusing the alarmist press with reality. and you call this a good format ? McDonald's arugment, anybody? I ask anyone to do a Yahoo or Google search of "CD sales down" or "CD sales drop"- you'll think twice about investing in any more digital sources or recorders You don't seem to understand production. We use the same digital recorders to produce music, no matter what the target media is. Where do you think MP3s come from? LPs? Cassettes? LOL! Here's a news flash - most MP3s are produced from (digital audio) .wav files. even though SACD, DVD-A, and CD allegedly have this "stellar" sound quality, why arent' they SELLING ? They are a solution looking for a marketable problem to solve. reason- people are slowly going back to analog- my friend's repair shop is FILLED with analog repair jobs- RIGHT NOW OK, so he has slow service and work is backing up. BTW that's one thing that soured people on analog production gear - the excessive need for maintenance. the CD players are thrown out, rather than repaired So what? If a credible replacement costs less than the price to fix, what do you expect the rational consumer to do? |
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jailhouserock wrote:
the bell has tolled for CD http://www.hometheatermag.com/bootcamp/77/ My dear boy, this is the bell tolling for the entire industry. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
jailhouserock wrote: the bell has tolled for CD http://www.hometheatermag.com/bootcamp/77/ This is just some shilling for Sony and Philips and their licensess My dear boy, this is the bell tolling for the entire industry. --scott ???? Presumably meaning the shift from physical media to downloads? |
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"Arny Krueger" wrote ...
"Scott Dorsey" wrote My dear boy, this is the bell tolling for the entire industry. --scott ???? Presumably meaning the shift from physical media to downloads? Perhaps production as well as distribution. Anybody want to wager the % of shrinkage of the typesetting equipment and services industry? Now that anybody with a $500 computer in their apartment can have more fonts online than the best typesetting house in town had 20 years ago. Audio is not the only area where the equivalent of "home studios" and "field production" is overtaking traditional modes of production. |
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Arny Krueger wrote:
Arny in regards to this person "jailhouserock", "duty, honor, country" & the other nyms he post by, he is a troll of major proportions. he likes to disrupt & eventually destroy newsgroups. it would be wise to just killfile this jerk & move on. however, if he does become a problem to this group, you need to send a abuse report to both google & his isp ) he has allready destroyed the alt.collecting.8=track.tapes group. |
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"Richard Crowley" wrote: "Arny Krueger" wrote ... "Scott Dorsey" wrote My dear boy, this is the bell tolling for the entire industry. --scott ???? Presumably meaning the shift from physical media to downloads? Perhaps production as well as distribution. It may be a shift from albums back to singles. Consumers no longer have to pay for all the filler you find on so many albums. That will be a significant change in the marketplace. -Jay -- x------- Jay Kadis ------- x ---- Jay's Attic Studio ----x x Lecturer, Audio Engineer x Dexter Records x x CCRMA, Stanford University x http://www.offbeats.com/ x x---------- http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jay/ ------------x |
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"Robert" wrote in message
Arny Krueger wrote: Arny in regards to this person "jailhouserock", "duty, honor, country" & the other nyms he post by, he is a troll of major proportions. he likes to disrupt & eventually destroy newsgroups. it would be wise to just killfile this jerk & move on. however, if he does become a problem to this group, you need to send a abuse report to both google & his isp ) he has allready destroyed the alt.collecting.8=track.tapes group. Got it. I've been thinking about just ignoring his posts, and your comments and those of others have pretty well made up my mind. |
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"Soundhaspriority" wrote in message
"Arny Krueger" wrote in message . .. "Scott Dorsey" wrote in message jailhouserock wrote: the bell has tolled for CD http://www.hometheatermag.com/bootcamp/77/ This is just some shilling for Sony and Philips and their licensess My dear boy, this is the bell tolling for the entire industry. --scott ???? Presumably meaning the shift from physical media to downloads? And lower quality. There's no doubt in my mind that lossy compression is rarely without some kind of sonic impact. What we are seeing now is another re-definition of what consumers need in the way of SQ to be happy. Over the past 50+ years the public has been happy with 78s, 45s, 33s, 8-track, cassette, CD, AC-3 (DD), MP3, and AAC. The highest quality of the bunch is CD. The formats since then have compromised sound quality, by amounts ranging from a little to a little more. I've always suspected that the CD format was a bit overkill - the acceptance of lesser formats just says that consumers either agree with me, or are even more lenient. People don't want to sit still for music any more. Agreed. Music all by itself isn't enough to attract their full attention like it used to be. They want it as a kind of brain-feed, through earbuds. This is just a consequence of the previous point. |
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