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- From: sture@lulea.trab.se (Sture Jonsson)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Best news about LPs...
- Message-ID: <4729@othmar.lulea.trab.se>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 21:50:16 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.145151.12500@phillip.edu.au>
- Organization: Telia Research AB, Aurorum 6, 951 75 Lulea, Sweden
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- t8800568@phillip.edu.au writes:
- : In article <1992Jul26.013138.29209@u.washington.edu>, ngrjn@milton.u.washington.edu (V Nagarajan) writes:
- : >
- : > ...is that they are on their way out.
- : >
- : > That's my impish side talking. Seriously, what is the future for
- : > LPs? A local music store had two dozen cutouts and no more! I am
- : > curious as to why people are investing hundreds, if not thousands,
- : > of dollars on a technology that is being phased out rather rapidly.
- :
- : Cause it sounds much better I guess.
- :
- : What is the future of LPs? They don't have one.
-
- If my comments sound like flames, they are. But not at 't8800568' or V
- Nagarajan, but instead at the recordcompanies and Low/HiFi manufacturers. Too
- bad they are not reading this....
-
- 1) It sounds much better.
- 2) Some people have several hundred (thousand?) LP:s that they don't want to
- change into CD (buying the same thing again, paying 1.5 times the price
- and it still sounds worse. At least at this point in time).
- 3) Some people hate the recordcompanies for throwing out the LP so soon, just
- to make a nice profit. The introduction of the CD must be one of the most
- well thought out and successful marketing ventures in modern history. They
- actually got away with raising the prices with (sometimes more than) 50 %,
- while nearly reducing the costs of manufacture and not necessarily improving
- the product for the customer. Most CD:s that are sold today are exactly the
- same versions as the LP:s. No more music. Just more money to buy it !
- But then again, the recordcompanies don't care the least about music.
- They even help introduce DCC and MiniDisc, systems that are worse than CD:s,
- since they think (like some component manufacturers) that CD:s are of an
- unnecessary high quality for use in a normal home. Sheesh....
-
- LISTEN and enjoy,
- Sture
-