Lp topnotch 350 reviews
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Is this news to you? Of course not, but it is to millions of suckers who believed the hype they inhaled during the mid-'80sincluding, according to the WSJ story, articles in both Time and the Washington Post, which declared CDs "virtually indestructible." Some myths die harder than others: the WSJ story repeats the one about CDs sounding better than LPs. With CDs, it may take some time, but eventually they either skip or won't play at all. If you don't handle your LPs with care, the damage is immediate. Turns out that digital slobs face the same music as the analog varietyonly in time-release fashion. "CDs ForeverNo Scratch That," a splashy story in the February 2 Wall Street Journal, reports that there may be up to "300 million damaged compact discs out there." According to the article, written by a WSJ staffer, "An estimated $1 billion to $4 billion of unusable CDs piling up in American living rooms." Playback required a special 0.25-mil stylus tracking at 2.5gmabout half a gram less pressure than, say, a $7600 Clearaudio Insider needs to track a regular LP in your living room! A flywheeled motor (there's nothing new under the sun) kept the 'table's speed stable under impossible conditions, and an ingenious arm design supposedly kept the stylus in the groove even around hairpin turns.įinally, the "perfect sound forever" chickens have come home to roost. The players, made by CBS-Columbia for Chrysler, featured a new 7" format record, the XLP, which provided up to 45 minutes per side thanks to its 16 2/ 3rpm speed and its pitch of 550 grooves per inchtwice the density of a standard LP. For those of you too young to remember, or who thought he was kidding, here's a photo of the late, great Lawrence Welk enjoying "Highway Hi-Fi" in his 1956 DeSoto convertible. A few issues ago, Sam Tellig gently mocked me with a comment about mobile record players.