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From: rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Vinyl vs. CD recordings
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Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 02:03:04 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  4 02:03:04 1984
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From the replied-to article:

	 The only shortcomings of digital audio are in the minds of the
	 golden ears.  I see no need for new technology just to placate
	 their ill-informed complaints. The only reason anybody even bothers
	 to answer their wild ravings is concern that their visibility is
	 all out of proportion to their numbers (and substance), and that
	 anti-digital columns in trashy magazines (e.g., Absolute Sound)
	 might inhibit the growth of digital audio and spoil it for the rest
	 of us.

	 Once the CD has taken hold (and I think it's just now doing that),
	 we can just relax, sit back and be amused by the anti-digital
	 "golden ears" as they take their rightful place among the
	 creationists, astrologers and flat-earthers.

	 Phil Karn

My comments:

It doesn't bother me that the pro-CD people want to listen to that
trash.  It doesn't bother me that their ears are full of muck.  It
doesn't bother me that they mistakenly believe my distaste for CD to
be a distaste for them.  It doesn't bother me that they don't think
any better than they hear.

But it does bother me that, by the widespread acceptance of CD, I will
have no choice about whether I listen to it as well.  You think about
that, you CD-ers;  you can listen, with my blessing, to whatever you
want.  But don't drag me in with you.

Needless to say, my comments are not intended as directed against the
person of Phil Karn.

cheers,

Tim