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In Reply to: Re: NPR just ran a Vinyl story posted by Kenny Brant on April 16, 2007 at 06:31:47:
At the CES in 1979(I think or maybe 1980?), the Philips techy-types were demonstrating how you could spread butter on a Compact Disc, subject it to Coca Cola, water, heat, etc., then wipe it off with your shirt sleeve and then slip it into the player and it worked! Not once did they tout its fidelity.It took a deal with Sony and SOny's marketing machine to change the course and seal the deal on the CD's future.
Of course, Philips had it right all along, LOL.
cheers,
Me, I'm just a lawnmower, you can tell me by the way I walk....
-Ray
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that CDs became popular as an alternative to cassettes, whose convenience had already made them more popular than vinyl. This was how I remember it -- fidelity was never really an issue in the early 80s, and since CD was more convenient...
"The Blues ain't about makin' yourself feel better; it's about makin' other people feel worse!" -- Bleedin' Gums Murphy
They just wanted to keep collecting royalties after the patent on the Cassette ran out!
Me, I'm just a lawnmower, you can tell me by the way I walk....
-Ray
Funny how things evolve. When CD sales took off, some marketing genius came up with the idea that they actually sounded better than LP's.
Boom, eveyone started replacing there LP's with crappy sounding CD's, that they thought sounded better, because in part, they believed the marketing BS. Not me baby!Jeff
It is funny how the same myth has been played out again in the photographic industry to say how digital is better than film. But that is another subject
...On most people's gear, CDs *DID* sound better than records. So did cassettes for that matter.At least in my corner of suburbia, the record player was a department store brand changer or a monster wooden coffin of a console. Most were equipped with a ceramic cartridge that tracked in ounces. Most records were dirty and scratched.
The only people dis-satisfied with CD playback were and are audiophiles.
--
Al G
Born To Tinker!
it was not uncommon for music at parties to come from a pile of LPs stacked up 10 high without protective sleeves and covered with a film of cigarette ash and cheap wine. No one took care of LPs, especially those owned by someone else, and after about a month of play, most were seriously scratched and often groove damaged from worn out, broken, misaligned styli with pennies taped on top of the headshell. The first CD I ever heard was at a well known record store (Radio Doctors)in Milwaukee, and it blew me away because it was quiet. I did not really own a decent TT and cartridge until 1987, when the CD had begun to eclipse vinyl
The great thing about that kind of party-Lp-stack play was that the groundswell of human noise and the vague stupor produced by the alcohol / tobacco-smoke haze --- generally covered any "noise" from the records. Provided you turned up the volume loud enough ....I can hear 'Mickey's Monkey' and 'Jimmy Mack' coming at me thru all that teen spirit from those years...... another century, in fact.
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groove
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