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Jenn wrote:

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"Eiron" wrote in message

so if you want to hear what the master sounded like, keep your vinyl
pristine and unplayed, and listen to the CD.

Unless the cd version is over-compressed and digitally clipped like the
Santana of several years ago. A more recent comparison would be the new
Chili Peppers cd vs the Steve Hoffman-mastered lp.

At the Stereophile show yesterday, Fremer stated that in Europe, for new
recordings that are released on both CD and LP, LP is outselling CD.
This is because so many people are downloading rather than buying the
CD. Interesting.

Indeed. Maybe there's a change in collecting in which the end result is
how many gigs one can accumulate and copying someone's tunes is as good
as saying hello. A cd would be just an unnecessary step.

On the plus side, transferring mp3 doesn't require handiwipes the way
shopping for old records does.

Stephen