fish@ihu1g.UUCP (Bob Fishell) (03/24/84)
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O.K., all you guys, I finally relented and got a CD player. I said I'd get
one when they came down to under $500, and they did, so I got one. To all
you suckers who paid up to $1200 for one, thanks for helping the industry
recover their R&D costs so quickly so I could get mine at a reasonable price.
Excuse me, I have to go and listen to a little digital Debussy.
--
Bob Fishell
ihnp4!ihu1g!fishrfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (03/24/84)
Welcome to the new world where you no longer need golden ears to enjoy the music. Your purchases of cd's will help lower the prices for all of us and encourage a still larger variety. May the rest of your equipment enable you to hear the improvement and may your speakers be able to take those unattenuated drum beats. hound!rfg
pmr@drufl.UUCP (03/26/84)
My deepest sympathies. If you`ve waited this long, you should have waited a bit longer and bought something that sounded better. The $500 machines of today do not sound any where near as good as the $1,200 machines of today. However, they all still sound mediocre. To each his/her own. Yours for higher fidelity, Phil Rastocny AT&T-ISL ..!drufl!pmr
freda@tekig.UUCP (Fred Azinger) (03/27/84)
Welcome to world of the FAD audio equitpment. I think I'll wait until
the sound quality is better, not just until I can afford one.
Remember: New is not always better!
--
Fred Azinger
Tektronix Inc., IG
Beaverton, OR
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ARPA: tekig!freda.tek@rand-relay sdo@u1100a.UUCP (Scott Orshan) (03/28/84)
Just a little support for CD buyers - I recently bought one for
$550 - it was a heavily discounted Marantz unit (made by Philips
with all their fancy error correction and digital filtering
and exceptional shock resistance, for those who might thumb their
noses at the Marantz name). It lacks a lot of features, but the
sound is exceptional. The only problem is finding disks that
are decent. Unfortunately, the good ones seem to be classical,
and that's not my cup of bits.
Even for those who denounce the sound of the CD - how can you
beat the convenience and abilities of the players? I've always
been so lazy that I wouldn't play a record because it involved
moving junk off the dust cover, cleaning a record, turning it
over, and having to listen to songs I didn't enjoy.
Now I just pop the disk in, select whichever tracks I want to
hear, in whatever order I want. And no record noise.
There are record playing devices which have all these features.
I saw one in the DAK catalog that had dual linear tracking tonearms
to play both sides of a record. I'll stick to my CD player, though.
And please, don't insult my intelligence and auditory system
by telling me what I do and don't hear (although some disks
seem to have some EPID - even parity induced distortion -
it sounds a little like two watermelons colliding underwater
three miles away. It's easily curable by covering the speakers
in my TV with Tupperware lids. :-)
Scott Orshan
Bell Communications Research
201-981-3064
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