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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: how about this?
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Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 01:20:51 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  4 01:20:51 1985
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> I wonder...
> 
> With the advent of CDs, ever notice that the quality
> of most (if not all) vinyl disks have steadily decreased.

The average quality on vinyl disks has decreased, but it started many years
ago, well before the advent of CD's.  It was a simple matter of economics:
Record companies like to make lots of money.  Vinyl is a petroleum-related
product.  When the oil crisis hit, the quality of the vinyl went way down
as virgin vinyl (vinyl made from new materials, as opposed to reprocessed
vinyl) got very expensive.

To be sure, CD's give the record companies a way to answer the clamor for
better recordings.
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Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.