Poll - Vinyl, CD, Squeezebox/MP3, Radio?

[Baggy Trousers]

Like so many others, I was seduced by the blandishments of digital. By the time I realised I had been duped, I had disposed of nearly all my LPs since I regarded them as being superfluous following the digital transfer of their contents. Oh, woe! How importunate I was . . . .

Even if one could afford the crippling cost of so doing, the clock can't be turned back for whilst the record companies were quick to transfer material to CD and thus promote this new medium for their commercial benefit - in most cases, the production/artistic costs had been amortised years before - there is no likelihood of their reversing the process so that even if I were to resurrect my old equipment, I would have little to play on it.

As has been suggested, the current generation seems ignorant of the need for, or even the existence of quality reproductive equipment. Clearly, digital stuff is capable of much technical improvement but why would the likes of Sony and Philips make the necessary capital investment (given that they would be well into the diminishing returns sector of the exercise) in order to provide an improvement undetected by by the Bose/MP3 mass market.

Sadly, I have voted "CD".

Richard.