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http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Musi....ap/index.html

High fidelity takes backseat to portability
POSTED: 1:50 p.m. EDT, April 23, 2007
Story Highlights
,¬ MP3 players now preferred means of listening to music
,¬ Stereo system, CD sales way down
,¬ Some audiophiles unhappy, but most people like MP3 devices

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Music lovers remember a familiar
advertising image from the past: a man reclined in a chair, head
back,
blown away by music from his high-fidelity sound system.
Like the Marlboro Man before him, Maxell's pitchman is now a relic.
With their ability to store vast libraries of music in your pocket,
sleek digital music players have replaced bulky home stereo systems
as
the music gear of choice. But the sound quality of digital audio
files
is noticeably inferior to that of compact discs and even vinyl.
Are these the final days of hi-fi sound? Judging by the 2 billion
songs
downloaded from Apple Inc.'s iTunes service, the ubiquity of white
iPod
"ear buds," and the hundreds of thousands of folks file-sharing for
free, the answer is yes.
"In many ways, good enough (sound quality) is fine," said Paul
Connolly,
an art installation specialist and longtime audiophile from Sugar
Land,
Texas, who's now in the process of digitizing his 2,400 CD collection
in
Apple's lossless digital audio format.
"The warmth and the nice distortion that the album had was
beautiful,"
he said. "But do I long for the days of albums? No. Do I long for the
days of CDs now that we've gone digital? No. It's a medium."

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"I honestly can't really tell the difference between CD, tape and
digital," [MacFarlane] said. "I'd even accept a lower quality as long
as
it's
digital and portable."

"Good enough!" the audiophile rallying cry. There's something in there
about music becoming less valued as the quality goes down and the
accessibility goes up. Still, things always change, and who loves last
year's cell phone? On the other hand, I heard a trombone recital that
included Arthur Pryor arrangements played on a narrow-bore instrument
from the twenties.

I drove my seventies Volvo to work the other day and you'd have thought
I pulled up in a Model T given the reaction.

That wasn't it. A Model T is collectors item.
Nothing collectible about your car.

"In a museum" is part of the exact quote. Did you really think I was
implying my beat up 140 is a collector's item?

You'd get the same response from a 70's era suitcase
cell phone.

I'll bet there'd be quite a reaction as the first cell phone service I
know about was in the eighties.

People were just shocked you bothered to maintain an absolute POS like
a 70's era Volvo.

Wow. Any excuse to put me down. The 140/240 series was not only
commercially successful, but pioneered safety and environmental features
as well as enjoying longevity domestic cars didn't have.

When your seventies ride turns over 380,000 miles we can compare notes
on which is the POS.

I had a '78 245 wagon that was the most reliable car I've ever owned. Wife
force me to see it shortly before divorce (humm....may be a link there) but
at that time it was well up in the high hundreds and the only thing that
ever was replaced other than shocks and tires was one failed alternator
belt.

I think there was a poem in the New Yorker that said to never sell your
old Volvo.

Stephen