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