$2? Wow. I had no idea how much we were getting fleeced.
-------- Original Message --------
From: Shai Drori <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 03:04 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Vinyl Sales DOWN - why? See interesting WSJ article today
>
> If I may offer my $0.02 as a consumer this time. Some of the stuff on vinyl
> is there for no reason as new pressing like Herb Alpert. Why spend $30 on
> something you can find in the $1 bin? Other stuff is just too weird for me
> to gamble $30 on. With the cost of pressing vinyl down to about $2 for high
> volume, it seems like the record companies haven't learned their lesson,
> and still try to milk a cow dry rather than look at what would sustain the
> niche for many years. I buy a lot of vinyl in used stores, I find lots of
> cool stuff I like at prices I am willing to spend. Not $30. As for the
> master being analog or digital, I couldn't care less, and let's face it,
> 99.9999% of the people that would listen to a good quality pressing
> wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Vinyl is noisy enough, and
> personally, I care about the pressing, not the origin of the master. It's
> 2017, there is a lot of both treasures and garbage that originates as
> analog and digital. A good cut from a digital source sound amazing on
> vinyl, trust me, I got more than a few of those.
>
> בברכה,
> שי דרורי.
> מומחה לשימור ודיגיטציה של אודיו וידאו ופילם 8-35ממ
> Cheers
> Shai Drori
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> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 9:44 PM, Eli Bildirici <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Yeah. There are still some ppl doing analogue mastering - Classic Records,
> > Music Matters, Analogue Productions, Sterling (on behalf of others) but
> > it's the exception rather than the rule. I think Music Matters may have
> > stopped due to limited sales though (and they're one of the 'good guys'
> > here).
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > From: "Gary A. Galo" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 01:58 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Vinyl Sales DOWN - why? See interesting WSJ
> > article today
> >
> > >
> > > The whole rationale for vinyl lovers is to be able to hear their
> > favorite recordings from the analog tape era on records made with the best
> > possible disc cutting and pressing. I don't know any vinyl lovers who want
> > records cut from all-digital sources. For them, the whole point is
> > all-analog.
> > >
> > > Gary
> > >
> > > ____________________________
> > >
> > > Gary Galo
> > > Audio Engineer Emeritus
> > > The Crane School of Music
> > > SUNY at Potsdam, NY 13676
> > >
> > > "Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener."
> > > Arnold Schoenberg
> > >
> > > "A true artist doesn't want to be admired, he wants to be believed."
> > > Igor Markevitch
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:
> > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lou Judson
> > > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 1:52 PM
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Vinyl Sales DOWN - why? See interesting WSJ
> > article today
> > >
> > > Thanks. That one says basically sales are slipping due to poor sound,
> > bad mastering, and not using the original analogue tapes.
> > >
> > > Most recordings these days never had an analog stage, but it would still
> > be possible to make a good-sounding Lp from a born-digital source. But most
> > people have forgotten how, if they ever knew.
> > >
> > > It is all a bad business decision to do it the way they have done it...
> > >
> > > Yet hi res downloads are still growing!
> > >
> > > <L>
> > >
> > > Lou Judson
> > > Intuitive Audio
> > > 415-883-2689
> > >
> > > On Jul 24, 2017, at 10:38 AM, David Crosthwait <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > A similar article is here:
> > > >
> > > > https://www.channelnews.com.au/vinyl-sales-slump-quality-blamed/ <
> > https://www.channelnews.com.au/vinyl-sales-slump-quality-blamed/>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > David Crosthwait
> > > > DC Video
> > > > www.dcvideo.com
> > > >
> > > >> On Jul 24, 2017, at 10:17 AM, Lou Judson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Tell us a little about what the subscribers' article says...
> > >
> >
>
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