[John Atkinson]

wrote:
John Atkinson wrote:
I fail to understand why you are obsessing about this matter.

Well, it's pretty obvious why he's obsessing about it...you said
it.

There is that, of course, which is why Mr. Krueger trolled me
by starting a new thread to discuss a casual remark I made a
while back.

I've been pretty underwhelmed by the RIAA tracking for years. It
doesn't account for specialized retailers, such as high-end stereo
stores that sell vinyl on the side, or most mail-order retailers. It
also doesn't account for all of the new vinyl sales on e-Bay, which
for years has been a hotbed of LP activity.

That's been my impression also, though if the RIAA are trying
harder to track that sales activity, as Mr. Krueger claims, that
would be commendable. Mr. Krueger, of course, for personal
reasons, needs to "prove" that the LP sales activity you
and I are talking about doesn't actually exist.

These are intersting times for audio, in that the two
hottest product areas right now, in terms of reader
passion, are LP playback and network-distributed digital
music.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile