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In Reply to: I disagree posted by akai m8 on March 29, 2007 at 04:48:23:
Are you serious? Your rationale makes no sense.A crap turntable from 30 years ago had rumble, clicks and pops. The internals were wired with bad lampcord. Phono inputs on an average receiver of the day were dismal. Interconnects were likely masking some of these weaknesses by not passing enough of the signal to the amplification. And what signal did pass through was likely not very close to great sound once early transistors got hold of it. I will give you this: a bad analog recording is more listenable on good analog equipment that bad digital is on good digital equipment.
More people are buying music today than ever before, the problem is that the BUSINESS of selling music has become vastly more competitive and complex. I no longer HAVE to buy locally if I choose not to. I no longer have to buy a whole album to get one song I heard on the radio. My serious listening is still done on serious equipment but in the car.......the Ipod......Additionally, the real cost for the purchase of an lp/disk is lower than it was 30 years ago when adjusted for inflation. Artists today are getting paid more and the companies less. The brick and mortar business model is no longer absolutely viable, they better have something else to sell. I remember the best record stores 30 years ago also sold some really cool bongs and other items of interest. Maybe that was the beginning of the end. In the 50's you could go into a store then go into a sound room and listen before you bought. Remember? Now, on line, that method of making a purchasing decision has returned. Back in the day when I would go album shopping, I had to plan the record purchase for last simply because I could not risk leaving them in the car for any duration.....got to avoid the warping.
If you want to assume that everyone else is wrong because the average consumer is listening to Ipods then compare that to the average consumer 30 years ago. They were listening to mono table radios or their car radio. One of the highest volume autos sold at the time was the Oldsmobile Cutlass. You could special order that car with an AM/FM Delco stereo and an optional cassette. Think back. There was no mass market gear that would convert someone then, at least today theres a chance. Stop drinking the coolaid and honestly look at the market. Consumers make decisions on quality, convenience and price. The balance of those affects where the money flows no matter how bad we want the hi-end biz to be, we are a niche.
Most bad equipment today is much better than average equipment from 30 years ago.
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Follow Ups
- Re: I disagree - ghasley 07:01:23 03/29/07 (7)
- not so - akai m8 07:33:07 03/29/07 (6)
- Re: not so - middleground 19:29:51 03/30/07 (0)
- Re: not so - ghasley 11:31:01 03/29/07 (1)
- Data rate. - Elmo 05:04:55 03/30/07 (0)
- You obviously do not understand S/N ratio nt - clifff 08:33:03 03/29/07 (2)
- bullcrap- digital audio needs dither to make it even sound like music - akai m8 04:28:18 04/02/07 (1)
- Re: bullcrap- digital audio needs dither to make it even sound like music - akai m8 04:28:58 04/02/07 (0)
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