Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!tesla!jeff From: jeff@tesla.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: CD.sound Message-ID: <114@tesla.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Jun-83 17:51:09 EDT Article-I.D.: tesla.114 Posted: Wed Jun 29 17:51:09 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jun-83 03:17:00 EDT References: <109@tesla.UUCP> utcsrgv.1557 Lines: 13 The title should be CD.sound and the British. Better yet, pick up any British hi-fi magazine of *1950* (when LP was introduced there) and read what they said about THAT. I did that, and found that there was (particularly among the editors of *Gramophone*) considerable resistance to LP; even a published belief that 78s were intrinsically better "for some kinds of music". In fact what the reviewers were responding to were the transference to LP of the recording techniques of the time, which had been optimized for 78s; or the use of 78 disc masters for mastering LPs. Now, no-one wants to believe that his multi-hundred-pound table-and-arm system is to be obsoleted overnight, especially by a EUROPEAN/JAPANESE invention, in Britain, also. They`ll come around. So, we hope, will the recording engineers. JF