twh@mb2c.UUCP (Tim Hitchcock) (09/13/85)
If you were going to buy a record player TODAY, which would it be LP or CD ? Is CD a passing fad, will it take over the LP market, or neither ? If you had your choice of CD players, which would it be ? ( I plan on spending $$ ) Is there a place to get CD's for less that the $13.99 - $17.99 my local record shop wants ? Mail order ? Thanks for your help, Tim Hitchcock ihnp4!mb2c!twh
mpm@hpfcla.UUCP (09/23/85)
I am a satisfied owner of a Carver DTL-100 CD player. I recommend it to anyone willing to pay roughly $600 for a unit. However you can get nearly the same thing (less DTL circuit) by buying one of the Yamaha units. The front panel is equally understated and the price even more so. Try the second from bottom model (I think) that offers 2x oversampling with dual DACs. (The low end uses a single multiplexed DAC.) Use the extra money to buy CDs. If all goes according to plan, some new CD pressing plants will come on-line this fall/winter. They will utilize new processes that will re- sult in higher volumes and lower costs. The CD shortage may be over soon. And we may start to see small specialty companies doing low-volume issues of "esoteric" music. See August or September issue of "Digital Audio" for details (the one that reviews "We Are the World"). Finally !? -- Mike "I can dream, can't I" McCarthy (ihnp4!hpfcla!hpfcms!) mpm
mpm@hpfcla.UUCP (09/23/85)
SUBJECT: CD Prices I buy most of my CDs from a mail order place in the Los Angeles area. They offer "wholesale" prices ($10-$12 for most labels) if you buy large quantities. Their address and phone number is Music Brokers (818) 898-1851 12423 Gladstone Avenue #27 Sylmar, CA 91342 To qualify for "wholesale" prices you must order 25 or more in your first order, and 10 or more in subsequent orders. (Otherwise prices are about $2 per disc higher.) I bundle orders from lots of people to qualify.
rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (09/29/85)
[] That new process that increases volume and lowers cost is putting them in cardboard sleeves instead of "jewel boxes", right? -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg
baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) (09/30/85)
> [] > That new process that increases volume and lowers cost is > putting them in cardboard sleeves instead of "jewel boxes", right? > > Dick Grantges hound!rfg I wonder how much the lifetime of CDs would be compromised by such a change. Records can be scoured into garbage just by repeatedly being slipped into and out of cheap or dirty dust-jackets. I consider the "jewel box" packaging technique, which eliminates any need for abrasive contact with the recorded surface, to be one of the more clever, if less high-tech, aspects of the CD format. Baba
06511039@sdcc13.UUCP (06511039) (10/09/85)
That's right! The place to look for CD price decrease is the manufacturing process itself (get rid of that injection molding and "clean room" business) NOT the packaging!!