Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital is not photography (was long - shorter but still off topic)
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:42:09 -0500

Austin Franklin jotted down the following:

>> The CD has yet to replace the LP completely, as it was supposed to.
> 
> Well, try to buy any current music on an LP....  LPs are not dead, but they
> certainly are a very very very small percent of available music today.

Actually, what surprised me when I was in England a couple of years ago was
how much modern dance music is released on EP and LP.  It turns out, it's a
hell of a lot easier to scratch, mix, and serve up vinyl to a dancing crowd,
compared to the new-fangled CD stuff.  There is also the really high-end,
esoteric, unless-you-have-a-PhD-in-electrical-engineering-you're-not-
allowed-to-buy-them, 2.3 kg/record LPs produced for the HiFi crowd: you
know, the kind who don't own a record player, but a "turntable" with a 10cm
thick platter turned by a specially formulated rubber band and a
quartz-controlled step-motor synched to an atomic clock in Bern...

M.

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