messina@ihuxl.UUCP (m. messina) (05/29/85)
I know I'll get flamed for this but I can't resist. Anyone who spent $1000+ for a turntable is going to convince themselves that the imaging, sound quality, etc is much better than a CD. This will justify the money spent. (Audio abuse is like drug abuse, you have to keep on spending more money to get a better high). When I was looking for a CD player, I could only hear (not imagine) that CDs were by far superior to any of my LPs, on any of there turntables, at any of the stores (but again I don't have a Phd in audio imaging or is it audio imagining). If it makes you feel better to think good analog equipment is better, then keep on spending $200+ every 6mon. to year for your cartridge, play those records you enjoy once a year to keep down the wear, or keep on buying the same record over-and-over again to maintain that 1st time sound quality. Me I'll spend the $500 for the CD player and $10-$15 for CDs once. Compared to high quality analog equipment, replacement of a cartridge, buying Master and Import LPs (which are about the same price as a CD, if not more in some cases), and buying the same LP several times because the one you have as been worn though to side B. Who is spending more ? JUST MY OPINION. ihuxl!messina
ben@moncol.UUCP (Bennett Broder) (05/30/85)
> Compared to high quality analog equipment, replacement of a cartridge, > buying Master and Import LPs (which are about the same price as a CD, if > not more in some cases), and buying the same LP several times because > the one you have as been worn though to side B. True, record wear is a problem; it's all downhill after the first play. One of the things I like best about my CD player is knowing that the unwanted sounds interrupting my musical pleasure are the refrigerator and furnace fan, not a newly discovered defect on the recording medium. In defense of records, however, I'd like to raise two points. 1) Plenty of good music is available in the 'cut-out' bins of record stores. This gives me an opportunity to buy music at $1.99 to $3.99 that I am not sufficiently interested in to justify a higher price tag. This has helped to expand both my collection and my musical horizons. 2) Audiophile records are of more consistant quality. The record you spend better than $10.00 on will either sound good or the store will take back the record and give you a credit. As a result, there are very few audiophile records of poor fidelity. With CDs there are definitely some clunkers out there, and if you happen to purchase one, you are stuck. (Stores in this area will only replace CDs with a duplicate of the same title) If you don't know what I am talking about, just ask anyone who bought the CD of Jethro Tull's 'Aqualung'. Ben Broder ..ihnp4!princeton!moncol!ben ..vax135!petsd!moncol!ben
bytebug@pertec.UUCP (roger long) (06/04/85)
In article <340@moncol.UUCP> ben@moncol.UUCP (Bennett Broder) writes: >In defense of records, however, I'd like to raise two points. >1) Plenty of good music is available in the 'cut-out' bins of record > stores. This gives me an opportunity to buy music at $1.99 to > $3.99 that I am not sufficiently interested in to justify a > higher price tag. This has helped to expand both my collection > and my musical horizons. I'd like to point out the other side of this issue. I belong to a CD rental club. I don't have to be so picky about the music I listen to any more, and will often preview discs before I buy them, just to make sure that it will be $12-$14 well spent. I've listened to a LOT more music since I joined the club, and have found LOTS more music that I enjoy. How many times have you bought an record at a store based on one single you've heard on the radio, and found that one single was the only thing worth listening to. I don't know if other parts of the country have the same sort of rental clubs, but it makes a LOT of sense when you think how much abuse a CD can take. And you know that some of the stuff has been in circulation for awhile. Try doing that with records... (How many of you have gone down to the public library and checked out a record recently?) -- roger long pertec computer corp {ucbvax!unisoft | scgvaxd | trwrb | felix}!pertec!bytebug