Originally Posted By: rharv
Thanks Bob (JazzMammal) edited mine as well

Bob (Notes),
I know what you mean. A few years back I spent decent money on a 'more than decent' living room surround system.

Then watched my family/friends plug their phones, ipads or ipods into it (as the source) and proceed to tell me how much they like it or what they didn't like about the system .. <grin>





Yes people care about the song, the words, and as much of the music as they can understand (some more than others), but their point of diminishing returns for fidelity is much lower than mine.

But as long as they are listening and enjoying, it's OK with me.

I never owned an 8 track - what? Change tracks in the middle of a song!!!!!!!!

I had a cassette in the car, but I recorded my own tapes from the vinyl that I bought. And since the early cassette machines not only had low fidelity but also got hungry and ate a cassette every now and then, it was a good move.

I hated the early CD sounds as well, They have made improvements in D-A converters so that although I still think things sound better on a good analog system, I listen to CDs a lot. They are more convenient and there is a different kind of distortion. The LP has pops and clicks but the CD has quantization errors, which is worse? Besides, to listen to a symphony on and LP without flipping the disk in the middle.

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