On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks on that. I considered Rega. The elegant simplicity certainly has > appeal. > > With Technics, apparently the cost of getting parts from suppliers in > low volumes, coupled with the overall decline of vinyl (though there's > a resurgence), coupled with the poor economy led to the business > decision to shut down the line. > > The turntable arrived a day early. Getting it set up this morning. > > Tom C.
One other factor, I'm betting. Technics' sales had been buoyed by the club DJ business for the last 15 years or so. But lately even the DJs are moving to digital audio. You can do mixing, scratching etc. from an iPad now. Once a few big name producers embrace something, they all do. That may dampen the vinyl upsurge too. But there seems to be a move among 20-somethings to adopt LP records as an alternative to the MP3's they grew up with. [Boy it made me feel old to write that last sentence. :-) ] -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
