I have a friend who has about a $100k audio system ($29K loudspeakers) and he has invested heavily in both analog and CD. On his system, the best LPs crush CDs, it isnt even close and his digital stuff cost about 20K including upsamplers, jitterboxes, etc. His phono rig is also about 20K....LPs cant sound simply amazing when done right. CD is history like you mentioned, SACD and DVD-A both beat it and sound closer to LP....
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- J.C. O'Connell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jcoconnell.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 7:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: way OT: CD/LP was A conversation with Noritsu. On 19 Nov 2003 at 18:19, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > Wrong, there are tons of new models of turntables > coming out and also tons of ultra high quality > reissue LPs. The high end audio market has spoken > and the winner IS NOT CD. CDs are a mass market > mid fi product to be played on crappy $300 compact > stereos.... So millions of $300 mid-(to low) fi mini-systems beat (in a market acceptance sense) how many 10K+ turntables per annum? <LOL> For your info I do own a high end TT and I don't beleive that vinyl better or worse than CD (I own 2 top end CD players and 2 external DACS), they are entirely different media, each has it's advantges but none is more "musical" than the other. SACD however has the vinyl brigade in a huff. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
