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From: prk@charm.UUCP (Paul Kolodner)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: CD vs LP
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Date: Mon, 27-May-85 10:25:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 27 10:25:54 1985
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(In case there are a few aborted version of this posting on the
net, it's because I'm having a quarrel with my editor.  Sorry.)

I own about 1000 LP's which I consider some of my most prized
possesions.  I treat them with loving care, including vacuum
cleaning.  I have never let anyone else touch any of my records.
I recently bought a CD payer and about 25 CD's.  So how do I feel
about CD vs LP?  Answer:  I think CD's are great.  The sound is
spectacular, especially the dynamic range and lack of distortion.
Imaging?  It could be better with both, but other issues tear
at my heart more.  The real issue, as far as I'm concerned, is
ease of handling.  After 5 or 10 plays, my most treasured records
sound like they've been dipped in ivory liquid, despite my
anal care. If I touch their surface by accident, I get a 
guilty feeling.  When people come to visit, they sometimes
ask to hear some music.  I put on a record.  They begin to talk
about politics while Mozart is struggling to be heard in
the background and I'm visualizing the chips of plastic being
shredded from my favorite disc.  Do I need this?  CD's are
the perfect solution.  My ears have been demonstrated to
be golden enough to perceive some of the subtler differences
between CD's and LP's, but the convenience of the CD means that
I now spend more time actually listening to music rather than
cleaning records and worrying.  I'm sold.  Now, if they'd
only clean up all of my records and put them on CD's...