"John S. McLachlan" wrote:
> With all the talk on the future of MD, the bigger question is why
> are companies still making cassette tape? Americans hate any kind
> of change, and gonna stick with crap like cassette until it's not
> around any more. Lots of people gave up LPs not because CD was
> better, but because the record companies finally stopped making
> them...
>
I can understand why CDs eventually over took vinyl. I don't think that
the record companies would have stopped making them if CDs hadn't
eventually caught on. All of the "vinyl purists" who keep claiming that
records sound better than CD have just having delusions.
The day I bought my first CD and player was the last time I ever bought a
vinyl record. Besides the clicks and pops on a brand new record, each
play degrades the sound a little more.
The dynamic range and signal to noise ration of a record are much less
than a CD. Then there is the standard set by the RIAA (? did I get the
initials correct?) that limited the frequency response of vinyl.
It took a very long time for CDs to catch on in the US! Everyone's car
already had a tape player in it so they weren't about to totally give up
on the cassette yet (probably a lot of people were making cassettes from
CDs (what a frightening thought).
The timing of the release of MDs in the US was all wrong. Japan is very
receptive to new things. The US is much more resistant to change. Look
how long vinyl records lasted.
Larry
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