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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: The Sony partnership
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 13:50:39 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 13:50:39 1985
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The inadvisability of extended warranties was recently unanimously
put down on tablets of stone in this news group. It aint worth it.

The free jazz sampler was supposed to be just that - free. It used to come
with the players and wasn't worth much - maybe 50 cents. 'course  I'm not into
jazz, but I have a feeling that if I were, the value estimate might drop to 10 cents.
The Sony digital audio club has to be about the bigggest rip off even sony
ever invented.  I joined abougt two years ago upon payment of $10. I got one (1)envelope from the club in two years. It containe d a binch of misc.
advertising junk mail, a "company-type" "paper" (one issue), some more offers.
I have it somewhere. It was maybe worth 5 cents in reading interest. I did
get some other envelpe once with more sales material trying to talk me
into subscribiong to some old folks cd club or something like that.
In short, the insanity and death-wish driven enthusiasm of the divine-wind
driven sony folks are a legend in the trade.  If their equipment weren't so superb, if their engineering weren't so many years of everyone else, and they
had to depend on their marketing department (like normal high-tech firms),
Sony would long ago have collapsed utterly and the younger generation would not even recognize the name anymore, like hudson, hupmobile and stutz.
I would run as hard as possible in the opposite direction of that offer.
Subscribe to digital audio magazine or some other fine trade publication.
It will be a lot cheaper and you will get a lot more out of it.
Thems my sentiments.

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"It's the thought, if any, that counts!"  Dick Grantges  hound!rfg