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From: "Michael McKelvy"
Date: 6/21/2004 2:41 PM Pacific Standard Time
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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.
No, it's objective reality. Less noise, wider FR, and bigger dynamic range
make it objectively better.
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.
In your opinion.
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?
No, still have one.
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.
Then you'd be wrong. It was clearly obvious. Even with the compression.
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?
So people knew what they sounded like.
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.
Yet another selling point.
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.
Get them checked, they are obviously failing.