Re: What price vinyl

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:10:41 GMT, "Fleetie" <fleetie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maybe in 100 years' time, CDs will seem even more antiquated than old vinyl
seems now. In that case, a CD of a famous band, with its original packing,
might be worth a significant amount.

CDs may indeed be seen as even more antiquated than Vinyl in 100 years.

Vinyl today is a continuation of an older working principle which was vinyl taken to
it's (so far) peak, over older shellak 78 rpm recordings and phonograph rolls before
that.

CDs are compared to that only the first generation digital media with DVD being the
second. That is like sound rolls and 78 rpm records.

Of the medias that has come about after CD and which may be holding a clue to the
audio quality of the future, the Super Audio CD, DVD audio are the next step. And
while many Super Audio CDs and DVD DTS issues are simply higher quality samples of
ordinary stereo albums those formats actually do provide for more than just stereo
which means 100 years from now people just might be reading a text next to an
exhibited DVD or SuperAudio CD that goes like this:

"In the early days of digital medias the DVD and Super Audio CD were the first
attempts to bring more channels and better fidelity to the consumer, although
acceptance was slow and eventually neither format would become the defacto standard
for such due to the material available often never taking advantage of the format nor
being consumerfriendly".

Now what would researchers say about this period in 100 years?
No doubt lots of quad mixes that were prepared in the 70s and never issued as the
quad format on vinyl slowly flopped dispite a lot of interest from retailers to push
4 channel gear. The consumer had no interest at a time when hardware was 40-60
percent overpriced and manufacture wasn't lean or effective. Later on when DVD came
about production of most consumer gear was low priced compared to 25 years before and
most was made in Asia and the profit margins were greatly reduced. Those old mixed
could be taken out of the vaults and issued. You don't see that kind of effort.
you won't see 10 recording companie teaming up to form a release label of old music,
where a common effort is made to present music of bygone times at its premium using a
the most advantageous medie today to do it in. And those companies could get some
money out of it, but they are not gambling and that is one scenario which to them
sounds like gambling.

In 100 years the issuers of music either completely own every piece of sound ever
issued or have grasped that consumers don't like that.
We either win the battle to playback what we want the way we want it or we lose out
and cannot take several recordings of music and make a compilation for when we're on
the move or sailing.
Wouldn't you like issuers of music owning the right to the work presented to be the
makers of the music rather than a middle man like a recording company?

You can be certain that if you buy music today of present or past origin that the
creator or maker of th sounds on the media will not be complete reimpursed for that
music. if you buy directly at the artists suggested outlet be that their own site or
one that services more than one artist you will not make a contribution to or
rewarding the artist whoes music you enjoy.

I sometimes think that live music is the only way music will be truly enjoyed, but
even that has flaws especially if the artist is not in control of their live
performances either, their revenue may be filtered through a company that overcharges
for everything and doesn't promote the artist unless it is beneficial to them.

-Mikkel
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