From: Len Cole (leonard.cole_at_verizon.net)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 05:00:10 PST
I avoided even mentioning the laser LP players, but you're right, they are truly amazing. I'd love to have one, right after I get my Maybach.
I will have to say, however, that who on this list (in in the general public) can even hope to drop $10K on a turntable? Or a CD player? If the difference in sound between a $500 turntable and a $10,000 turntable is worth $9500, then knock yourself out. You're much better off spending the money on high quality speakers and amplifier. (And let's not stagger into a speaker discussion, please!)
Meanwhile I can buy 600 or so more CDs to enjoy. :-)
Or I could buy a couple of top-of-the-line Macs with super-wide monitors, video-capturing equipment and all. That's worth spending that kind of money on. $3K would probably be more than adequate for my music needs. (Well maybe not, depending if I could still get my hands on a Nakamichi cassete deck or not; but I'd probably bypass that altogether now in favor of CDs, DAT or the Sony MD disks.)
By the way, are those laser turntables capable of handling the CD-4 quadraphonic LPs from the seventies, or rather is the capability there in the frequency response of the reading mechanism?
ljc
On February 18 2004, Anil <anil_at_thisiswhatwedo.com> wrote:
>a decent Hi-Fi dealer, not a Linn dealer but someone who may stock
>Audionote or some other esoteric brand you may never have heard of, and
>listen to a $10,000.00 CD player and a $10,000.00 record player. There
>is a difference, if you like that difference then that is up to your
>own ears. I personally think Vinyl edges over CD especially when you
>start spending over 10K.
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