The Vinylizer
"Audio Empire" wrote in message
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:07:04 -0700, Arny Krueger wrote
(in article ):
"Scott" wrote in message
On Aug 15, 6:30=A0am, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:
"Scott" wrote in message
On Aug 13, 4:04=3DA0pm, John Nunes
wrote:
Many (most?) audiophiles have a prejudice against
musically important historic recordings because they
aren't exciting or interesting "audio" material.
=3DA0Funny that, with all the purple prose and hand
waving about "musicality" and so on.
Nothing like the smell of burning straw in the
evening.
Agreed.
I suggest you take a look at the music being reissued
by audiophile labels and then get back to us.
Information about offerings does not address the
question.
Sure it does. Economics 101. Supply and demand.
The supply wouldn't exist were it not for the demand.
You can't tell that to a boy who was raised in Detroit
among huge lots of brand new cars that nobody wanted to
buy.
You can't tell that to a boy who worked in a store that
sold records and saw how records that were pressed but
did not sell were handled.
All I can say is that wrt the records, that was then ,
this is now.
The reason that some recordings did not sell in the volumes that were
expected was a combination of optimism and human error.
If you can reliably demonstrate that optimism and human error are somehow
vastly reduced in these days, then you get your point.
Cars? As long as Detroit's car marketing
mantra is to "offend no one" then they won't please very
many people either, and most of their over-priced,
under-engineered, and poorly made cars will continue to
sell poorly against the Japanese, Koreans, and soon, the
Chinese.
American cars in total outsell Japanese, Korean, and German cars in total
within the US, which is their intended primary market. What *has* happened
is that Japanese, Korean, and German cars and car sales used to be a joke,
and now they are very serious competitors.
American cars as a rule are less costly than competive foreign models.
American car manufacturers have improved their designs and production
quality to the point where they are often fully competitive with foreign
products.
The shame is that American quality and design was so poor so long, and that
it took such disasterous losses to awaken american execuitives to the new
reality.
I worked for GM and Chrysler in the 60s and 70s and one word comes to mind:
Arrogance.
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