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- From: sture@lulea.trab.se (Sture Jonsson)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: LP Sales (Was:.Re: The end of cassettes)
- Message-ID: <5248@miramon.lulea.trab.se>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 15:29:53 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.173625.6659@nas.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Telia Research AB, Aurorum 6, 951 75 Lulea, Sweden
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- fineberg@win31.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel A. Fineberg) writes:
- : In article <WOOD.92Nov19082229@wood.uk.tele.nokia.fi> wood@uk.tele.nokia.fi (Peter Wood) writes:
- : >>>>>> On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:24:13 GMT, myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers) said:
- : >
- : >LP sales are actually going UP in Japan, by an order of something like 30 or
- : >40% this year over last, admittedly from a very small base. Apparently
- : >Japanese audiophiles are now discovering what we've known for years...
- : >
- : Yes, the Japanese now know what we have known for years, that there are a lot
- : of audiophilles out there with more money than brains.
- :
- : Sam
-
- More money than brains ? So what is buying CD:s then ? 1.5 times the price of
- an LP for getting the same thing (except that it also sounds worse in at
- least 99 cases out of a 100).
-
- CD is the perfect example that with fierce marketing people will buy anything.
-
- LISTEN and enjoy,
- Sture
-