[BC] Re: The death of the CD....

[SteveOrdinetz]

Dana  Puopolo wrote:

>Vinyl is making a comeback, and between that and MP3's, it spells death for
>the CD.
>

And if you believe that, I have a great deal on an AM stereo radio 
for you.  :-/

I got a laugh out of this quote:

"Talk to almost anyone in the music business' vital indie and DJ 
scenes and you'll encounter a uniformly optimistic picture of the 
vinyl market."

Vital indie and DJ scene???  What's he smoking?  This is a niche 
market at best!  So what if vinyl production is up 40% over last 
year, that's like a station with a .1 increasing to a .3 claiming to 
be the market's fastest growing station.  True I suppose...no one 
else likely tripled their audience, but they're still a bit 
player.  Does that mean that since WABC plays 4 hours of oldies on 
Saturday nights, music radio is coming back to AM?

I for one have no clue where (outside of some over-priced specialty 
shop in a major city) I'd find new vinyl.  When I see a display of 
45s at Walmart, then I'll believe.  It'll probably be right next to 
the 8 tracks.

I don't think I'll throw out my CD player quite yet.



>Hmmm..let's take a medium that can produce 90 db of dynamic range, and SMASH
>its audio so badly with multiband processors, peak limiters and clippers that
>it sounds like s**t!
>
>Hmmm..where have I seen this done before?  Oh  wait-RADIO!!
>
>But with vinyl, there's only 60 db of range, so we can't destroy its audio as
>bad!


Kind of a stretch for an analogy IMHO.