hazard@ihuxe.UUCP (Bryant S. Hazard) (05/07/84)
Since CD's can be played without causing record wear, why don't the dealers let us try a disc before purchasing it? Most stores have a player already set up with headphones. How nice it would be to listen to the recording before investing $19. Bryant S. Hazard ihnp4!ihuxe!hazard
rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (05/07/84)
Would you buy one that others had played? Yes, so would I if it was still visually in good shape. Hence (if we are typical) the store would not have an investment tied up in unsellable cd's - except for the dogs which no one would buy. So there <would> be some penalty for the store. Still, it sounds like one hell of a good idea. How do we get some stores to start using it? Dick Grantges hound!rfg
kiessig@idi.UUCP (05/09/84)
At least one store in Silicon Valley which has a very good
selection of CDs will let people listed to them before purchase.
[Century stereo on Bascom in San Jose]. They also have a nice sound
room (with a wide variety of speakers). Appearantly, CDs come
packaged in one of two ways. Either in a tall, thin plastic package,
with the CD "insert" on the top, and the disk and box on the bottom, or
with the disk and "insert" inside the plastic box, wrapped in
cellophane.
The stores around here that have a decent amount of stock on
hand can't afford to store too many of the tall packages, and so they
cut them open, put the "insert" in the box, add a price tag, and
store them vertically like mini-records. Record stores ("Wherehouse"
and "Tower", at least) don't bother with the repackaging - mostly
because they don't carry a large enough stock, I'm sure.
My point is that it's only these repackaged CDs that the store
will let people listen to. No fair ripping the cellophane off of the
Telarcs, for example. If other stores aren't already doing something
similar, you might just suggest it to them.
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Rick Kiessig
{decvax, ucbvax}!sun!idi!kiessig
{akgua, allegra, amd70, burl, cbosgd, harpo, ihnp4}!idi!kiessigczp@houxa.UUCP (C.PODARAS) (05/10/84)
it may not be wise to suggest that dealers "remove the disc from its Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 20 tall package and put it with all the others so it could be auditioned," at least if you wish to be picky about knowing the origin of the disc. currently, there are situations where many discs are correctly (read: fully digitally) mastered in their us versions, but copied from analog in overseas distribution. a tall (plastic or box) package from warner, windham hill, a & m, telarc, and others insures that it's us market. prime example which i mentioned in a previous article: donald fagan's nightfly. however, of course, it's not a failsafe...denon (with generally good quality discs) ships to the us only in the storage box. by all means, work on cd dealers to let you audition before buying. i personally prefer doing so on good headphones, as you can't always get a quiet listening environment in a busy store to hear just how good a cd can sound. locally, hi fi haven (new brunswick, nj)is pretty good about auditioning. chuck podaras houxa!czp a point about the packaging of cd's: