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It's All An Conspiracy . . .

Posted by Dogface1956 (A) on September 15, 2006 at 12:12:25

In Reply to: I think the point Teresa is trying to make is that she wants the choice ...... posted by Aleksunder on September 15, 2006 at 04:09:22:

To make the masses who are like sheep (right?) accept a cheaper to produce, more profitable, but poorer sounding format. You guys kill me, it's like thinking that we really did not land on the moon.

I was around for the switch over, and I remember that most people could not wait until the CD version of an album was released (remember when the Beatles catalog was released on CD) and when the customer had a choice between CD and LP they choose CD most of the time, I have been buying LP's and CD's since the late 60's and I can tell you that unless the store owner was a complete idiot, they stock what people want or they will not be in business long.

Better does not necessarily win in the market place, 8-track vs. 4-track, cassette vs. reel-to-reel, Beta vs. VHS, CD vs. MP3, SACD vs. CD, etc. No matter what you seem to think, the market wanted to move to CD there was no big conspiracy to dump LP's, actually your numbers are flawed because cassette was outselling LP at the end and you can't make an argument that cassette is better than LP.

I'm not saying that CD is better especially the early releases where the record companies did not use the original masters (in a lot of cases because they could not find them, not because they didn't want to use them), the mastering sucked. But the industry has learned a lot since those early days and some CD's sound great.

But it's all a conspiracy, the big bad corporations wanted to screw us (laughing their evil laugh).

Jeff

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