Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mcnc.mcnc.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!akgua!mcnc!bch
From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron C. Howes)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Linn/Naim seminar(results)
Message-ID: <977@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 00:12:42 EST
Article-I.D.: mcnc.977
Posted: Thu Nov  7 00:12:42 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 15:45:55 EST
References: <187@myrias.UUCP> <194@opus.UUCP> <536@unc.unc.UUCP>
Reply-To: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron C. Howes)
Distribution: na
Organization: North Carolina Educational Computing Service
Lines: 39

In article <536@unc.unc.UUCP> rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch) writes:
>
>I have a few complaints to register about article <194@opus.UUCP>,
>from rcd@opus.UUCP (written by Dick Dunn).  He writes:  
>
>>>	Basically what was said can be summed up by the following statement:
>>>Vinyl records (as opposed to tape/cd) provide the best possible reproduction
>>>of music.  It then follows that the backbone of a good system lies in the
>>>record player.
>>
>>...which is a notably good view for Linn, which is mostly in the business
>>of turntables, tonearms, and cartridges...
>
>Boy am I ever sick of this argument!  "Vested interest, that's why
>Linn knocks CD's."  Did it ever occur to you jerks that Sony has
>more money invested in CD's right now than Linn will ever see in its
>life as a manufacturing corporation?  You think Sony doesn't care
>about that investment?  You think the other CD manufacturers don't
>care?  You bet they do.  And they have spent and will spend quite a
>bit of effort protecting their investment and insuring that CD's are
>a commercial success -- whether the CD's sound good or bad.

What in the world does Sony have to do with Dick Dunn -- or this argument?
We aren't arguing digital vs. audio here.  Dick's article never mentioned
buying a CD Player *instead* of a Linn.  In fact it never advocated CDs
at all.  It merely said that the price performance of a Linn wasn't worth
the cash.

>In short, I'm
>tired of listening to people who don't seem to listen to what other
>people say (or, in some cases, who don't seem to listen at all).
>
>Now, is that loud and clear?

You bet, Tim.
-- 

						Byron C. Howes
				      ...!{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bch