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- From: tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: CD vs. LP again
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.191547.5316@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:15:47 GMT
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- kurts@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Kurt Strain) writes:
-
- > ... That's why people spend upwards of $25K for a turntable system,
-
- Are there actually people who spend this kind of money for a TURNTABLE ??!!
- What have they been smoking?? Get with it man, haul those LP's and that
- turntable to the dump! I'm sorry, anyone who spends this kind of cash
- on a total system even, has lost all credibility with me, that's for sure.
-
- I got rid of my turntable and all my LP's years ago and no regrets from
- me. I can start fresh and build a music collection with superior technology.
-
- Are these people actually serious about advocating LP's over CD's ?
- Do I need to clean the wax out of my ears? They want the scratches and
- pops, the needle reaming their records smooth on every playing. Dragging
- a rock thru congealed petroleum, yeah, that's the technology for me!
- They want the compressed dynamic range, a whole 30 minutes or whatever
- it is of music before you have to flip the thing over? The wonders of
- RIAA equalization curves, low tracking weight tonearms skidding across
- your precious vinyl when some clod bumps your turntable.
-
- I can't think of any reason to prefer LP's to CD's, except that some
- music has not been properly remastered for CD's and is available in a
- good LP -- or is not available at all on CD. I think the LP heads are
- just hoplessly biased by shelf-fulls of LP's they don't want to admit
- are obsolete. I have done my time with LP's and CD's both, the choice
- is clear to me.
-
- (Is this LP-advocacy serious -- have I just misinterpreted some kind of
- net-joke?)
- --
- Tom Trebisky ttrebisky@as.arizona.edu
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