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It's laughable that someone thinks scratchy scratchy records are superior to CDs.

I had the complete set of 12” Angel classical albums which played at 45 rpm. I really noticed no difference in them except that they had a shorter playing time. I transferred them all to CD and sold them to a second hand record shop.

My listening was via earphones mostly and to classical music. A persistent scratching noise often took me out of the music and made me listen to the record rather than its contents. CDs were a revelation that no amount of careful handling or anti static gun, or "half speed mastering" of my LPs...

I can’t go back to wow, flutter, pops, clicks, poor dynamic range etc. etc. This was with a fairly high range turntable and cartridge.

After having lived through the LP, High Fi,Stereo era, with all its major disadvantages, and having fully embraced the far superior sound of CDs, it is astonishing to me that anyone would want to go backward to vinyl! I guess it is like the kick I used to get in showing my friends my wind up...

I very rarely am in the car driving without my wife. She hates any other noise in the car, so the "stereo" system is off. Even as a young person I was a news junkie, so I only listen to talk radio when on my own.

I once spent hours of my time, listening to music that interested me, with my full attention. This was in the days when I lived by myself and basically had an apartment with a wonderful expensive system and one chair. Life — career, marriage and family intervened. Now, many years later, since...

At least one of each of Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler's CDs were 2 sided discs with a DVD side and a cd side. In those days I played a lot of CDs in the car. The Streisand disc, went in, would not play, and would not come out! Several Qtips and a pair of tweasers later I got it out. I had...