Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site harvard.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!sasaki From: sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: CD questions and record/CD clubs Message-ID: <209@harvard.ARPA> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 11:29:00 EDT Article-I.D.: harvard.209 Posted: Mon Jun 24 11:29:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 05:51:41 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Harvard Science Center Lines: 30 I just read a few CD player reviews in Stereo Review and was bothered by them. Basically, the reviews said that all CD players sound good, and the differences between them are so minor that they aren't worth considering. The reviews consisted mostly of the enumeration of the programming features. Which brings me to my first question: How important are the programming features? Do netters who own CD players really use the various features? Where do you go for good reviews of CD players and CDs? I have a friend who joined a record club (don't remember which one). When he joined he enclosed a note which stated that he refused to pay for anything that he didn't explicitly order from the club. When the first un-asked for selection arrived (he didn't return the little card telling the club that he wasn't interested in the monthly selection), he sent them a note thanking them for the record. With the note he enclosed his bill and a copy of the original note that he had sent in. This went on for about six months until he got a call from the club. They wanted their money. My friend explained what had happened. The guy on the phone said that he would be back in touch. The result was that he stopped getting the default selection, didn't have to pay for the records that had been "given", and stayed in the club for about two years getting only the records that he really wanted. -- ---------------- Marty Sasaki net: sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp} Havard University Science Center phone: 617-495-1270 One Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138