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From: "Michael McKelvy"
Date: 6/21/2004 2:41 PM Pacific Standard Time
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"S888Wheel" wrote in message
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From: "Arny Krueger"
Date: 6/21/2004 10:54 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"S888Wheel" wrote in message

Good LP playback doesn't come cheap.

It appears to be "priceless".

No. You will find a price tag for just about any record or any piece of LP
playbeack equipment.

But it is worth the money to
those who are interested in better sound.

Not at all.

No doubt. Not all people interested in audio are actually interested in
hearing
thier favorite music at it's sonic best.

If you are interested in better sound, you scrap vinyl!

Wrong.

Just
about everybody but the die-hards did that decades ago.

Quality is hardly determined by the masses. Besides, most people who
turned to
CDs did so for reasons other than optimal sound quality. And most people
who
turned to CDs were never aware of high end vinyl playback.

Compared to the objectively superior performance of CD playback, high end
vinyl is a contradiction in terms.

Yeah but it is a subjective call.

The only reason to have an LP playback system IMO is to ply the things you
can't get on CD yet or in rare cases because no good LP to CD transcription
exists.

If you are truly interested in hearing recordings at their best you would
simply be wrong.

I believe you are incorrect in your assessment that most people did turn to
CD for the improved sound quality. Cassette's are smaller and less
expensive but CD clearly sound better.

They are not ascompact or easy to store for travel. Do you foget those cassette
brief cases people used to have in the car?

When radio stations started playing
CD's in became more obvious to more people that there was less noise, more
dynamic range, better bass, and an easier way to access your favorite songs.

Radio stations use tons of compression and most people listen to the radio in
their cars. I don't think it mattered.

When CD players hit the market they were available mostly to people who
could afford $1000.00 or more for a playback device.

They dipped down to less than three hundred dollars with two years. They didn't
take over the market until they became portable and available for cars.

LP had been around for
a long while and was a known entity, as was cassette.

So?

While consumers do tend to gravitate to smaller more portable audio
playback, CD was not really any smaller than cassette,

It was in terms of carrying many CDs with you compared to carrying many
cassettes with you. They are also more durable.

and cassettes could
(after Dolby) reproduce pretty much the same FR as LP, CD just plain
outperformed both.

My ears tell me otherwise. And that is what counts to me.