Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!qumix!amd!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Vinyl vs. CD recordings Message-ID: <855@opus.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 20:09:13 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.855 Posted: Mon Oct 1 20:09:13 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 07:03:23 EDT References: <159@mouton.UUCP> <842@opus.UUCP> <70@unc.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 25 Karn's made some comments about the idea of a laser-pickup analog turntable in (159@mouton) but then got rather testy about one side issue. In a previous posting (842@opus), I noted that the following wasn't likely to generate much informed comment... > 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 ... Sure enough, we got a posting which, rather than ignoring the flame or putting it down as having no substance, responds in kind (and in fact stoops considerably lower)... > 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. If you folks don't have anything substantive to say, either move your self- gratifying flames to net.flame or shut up and listen until you DO have something substantive to say. If you can't listen, just shut up; you're of no help to the rest of us. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Relax...don't worry...have a homebrew.