Very true. Nothing more than a binary file.

Things:
The Record Industry waited too long. They should have remastered a lot of what is offered on CD, on LP, before the CD became popular. There was nothing really wrong with vinyl, it was well refined. But they waited until the digital age, when it became so very easy to copy (better known as "ripping") what they published, and have it spread all over the world, while they didn't make a cent.

I took the first CD player back, until I read about a Beatles bootleg CD in Goldmine or Discoveries Magazine, that was supposed to have fantastic sound.

I went to a local Record Dealer and mentioned the CD. He reached under the counter and pulled out a copy. I asked no questions and paid his price. On the way home, I stop and purchased another CD player. I listened to the CD and my jaw dropped to the floor. It sounded Fantastic! I asked myself why Capitol Records didn't publish anything that sounded as good as this CD. To make a long story short, that is when I realized that MANY Record Companies did not want to bother remixing the session tapes and took shortcuts JUST to make a profit. I gather CD sales failed to do well initially, UNTIL they began Remastering their session tapes. It was NOT the recording technology of the past that caused the CD "hiss", it was spent "master" tapes causing it. Newly published, remastered CDs do not contain written excuses, like they once did. Was it going on before CD? Sure. I caught Liberty Records using poor tapes to publish a reissue of a Canned Heat's LP. The difference in sound quality between the original pressing and the reissue was rather amazing. Bland, at best, was the reissue.

So, it took a bootleg CD to convince me CDs were worth collecting.

I still cherish vinyl, but there's one heck of a lot more that was never published on LP as there is on CD. However, I'm going blind trying to read what is published in these small CD booklets! :-)

1958? I couldn't even walk then! :-)

Take care, Jim!

Best,
John

• RE: And they said it would not last.... - Jim Liddane 08/28/2007 06:23:29 EDT (1)
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