Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: net.audio,net.consumers Subject: Re: Re: Turntable Controversy Message-ID: <3962@alice.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 11:31:30 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.3962 Posted: Sun Jul 7 11:31:30 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jul-85 01:14:51 EDT References: <189@omen.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.audio:5245 net.consumers:2532 > However, it seems to me that there isn't too much audible difference in > turntables once you get past $150 or so until you get the Nak with the > automatic centering. But for that price you can get a CD player and CD > replacements for the off center LP's, unless you really do enjoy > Stowkowski. I wish. It seems that the CD makers are more interested in producing the twelfth version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons than in putting out less common works, even some of the better-known ones. For example, the following well-known things are not yet available on CD: any Joni Mitchell except Court and Spark any Ry Cooder except Bop 'til you Drop anything by Gentle Giant any Beatles except Abbey Road Bach's English and French suites for harpsichord Brahms' piano quintet in F minor, Op. 34 Either of Brahms' string sextets and on and on and on. It is true that if you are starting a system now, you can just buy a CD player and buy discs as fast as you can afford to and not worry about running out of things to listen to. But if you want to hear specific pieces of music, they had better all be warhorses.