Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!mcnc!unc!rentsch From: rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Vinyl vs. CD recordings Message-ID: <70@unc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 02:03:04 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.70 Posted: Thu Oct 4 02:03:04 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 10:03:49 EDT References: <3050@watcgl.UUCP> <61@unc.UUCP>, <829@opus.UUCP> <4758@brl-tgr.ARPA>, <159@mouton.UUCP> Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 37 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