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Arny Krueger wrote:

http://www.engin.brown.edu/courses/e...MENT-print.pdf

starting with the foil in the lower left hand corner of page 11 that
reads:

Why CD?
Compact disk process around since the 1950's.
- market ready for innovation
- alliance of key industrial leaders
- superior product


This is the generally-accepted factual story, not the self-pitying
vinylphile conspiracy theory.


I think that what is now lost in the mists of time and nostalgia is
that "in the day",
LPs were regarded as more or less a "necessary evil" with well known
weaknesses (lack of dynamic range, fragility, sample-to-sample
variability, not user-friendly, etc.) Once the price of CDs and CD
players came down, users abandoned the LP in droves.


The price of cd's never came down