sjc@angband.UUCP (Steve Correll) (11/24/84)
> If disparaging comments about digital technology > and the CD coming from manufacturers dealing in these > products are false, what motive could they possibly > serve? Bearing in mind that one can be right despite the worst of motives or wrong despite the best, I'll speculate that small audiophile labels like Reference and Sheffield are miffed because CDs allow gargantuan, sloppy record companies to produce "pressings" in large batches that are as noiseless and warp-free as anything that a small, conscientious company ever produced in limited quantity on vinyl. I too would be upset if the brontosauri of the industry started crowding into my market niche. Regarding the letter from Polygram, could you clarify a point: did it say that they *cannot* provide better dynamic range on thier CDs than on their LPs, or merely that they have chosen not to? Frankly, the dynamic range on Polygram LPs doesn't seem particularly large to me. -- --Steve Correll sjc@s1-c.ARPA, ...!decvax!decwrl!mordor!sjc, or ...!ucbvax!dual!mordor!sjc