Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | People don't like to be parameters email: howard.390@osu.edu | in an equation. www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------