| Title: | You get surface noise in real life too |
| Notice: | Let's be conformist |
| Moderator: | GOVT02::BARKER |
| Created: | Thu Jul 28 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 550 |
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I've put this note in AUDIO, AFTER_HOURS, JAZZ, and FOLK_MUSIC.
It applies to UK people too. Contact me as per below if you are
interested.
Dave
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Note 3218.0 Analogue Addicts:contacts wanted No replies
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I belong to an organisation called "Analogue Addicts". The main purpose
of the group is provide a focus for those people who prefer to listen
to music via analogue sources, primarily LP, and to act as a focus for
pressure (and/or influence, call it what you like!) on the music
industry to keep LPs available.
Analogue Addicts is not into psuedo-Luddite activities that attempt to
keep old technology alive for the sake of nostalgia for old bits of black
plastic, but acts to counter the negative assumptions put about in
order to discredit LP in favour of CD by those who have a vested
interest, and to send appropriate messages to the industry about the
viability of continuing large scale LP production for those who wish to
pay for it by supporting those manufacturers and retail outlets that
continue to produce/sell LPs.
Neither I, nor any members of Analogue Addicts, have any financial
interest in the hifi or recorded-music industries. Membership costs
�7.50 in the UK, �10.00 or equivalent overseas; this includes a
quarterly magazine, and in the UK only (so far) priority entry to some
demos at hifi shows.
Following the success of campaigns in the UK, we are looking for
contacts outside of the UK - especially in North America - who are
prepared to publicise our activities locally. If you are interested,
please mail me offline with a postal address to which information can
be sent. It is not my intention to use Digital's mail facilities, which
is why I specify a full postal address.
If you are tired of being pushed around by the music and hifi industry
and would like to help do something about it, please send your name and
a postal address to Dave Sallitt @LZO, or BAHTAT::SALLITT.
Moderators: go ahead and delete this note if you feel it inappropriate.
If you leave it in, I will update it regularly for anyone who is
interested.
Dave
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| 316.1 | An update..... | BAHTAT::SALLITT | a legend in his lunchtime | Fri Jul 24 1992 11:38 | 44 |
As a result of notes in this conference and elsewhere, I had enquiries
from Holland, Germany and the USA, as well as the UK. I am still waiting
for feedback on the success of this from the people who run
the group, but since they do it in their spare it'll probably cost me
few pints of ale before I get the information out of them.
It would appear that LPs are making some sort of a comeback, but
obviously not as a mass market medium. Many new titles, previously only
available on CD or cassette, are being released in Japan and across the
world. Polygram (owned by Philips) is re-releasing some previously
deleted LP titles on vinyl; also Deutsche Gramaphon, one of the first
classical labels to declare it was ditching LPs, has continued to
produce a limited LP catalogue that is now expanding into previously
CD-only territory.
This isn't just happening in Europe. Fantasy, of Berkely CA, owners of
the superb Riverside jazz titles and the wonderful post-Atlantic Stax
catalogue, are producing some superb re-issues, using remastered tapes
and direct metal mastering (DMM).
Among those labels still producing LPs, DMM seems to be the default
mastering method now, whereas it only used to be available on premium
or audiophile labels. It also seems that many are outsourcing the
pressing to specialist plants, or to the majors who have spare
capacity. LP prices have increased by around 20%, but if the increased
margins, and economies of scale afforded by the new pressing
arrangements, mean that LPs will stay around longer, then more power to
them.
The quality seems better than ever, too, which doesn't indicate to me
that the manufacturing industry has lost interest, but that they
recognise there is still a profitable enthusiast market. Anyone who wants
to buy LPs has to try hard, though, as only independent and mail order
retail outlets seem interested in keeping them now. That is probably due
more to the dire state of the economy (maximum margin per sq.ft. of floor
space), than audio or musical considerations. So what's new?
Anyone who wants more info, please contact me by E-mail.
Dave
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| 316.2 | BAHTAT::SALLITT | Dave @LZO 845-2374 | Mon Feb 21 1994 22:40 | 3 | |
subs are now �10 (UK) or �15 (overseas).
dave
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| 316.3 | departing, stage left.... | BAHTAT::SALLITT | Dave @LZO 845-2374 | Thu Mar 17 1994 10:20 | 17 |
I will be leaving Digital at the end of this month. I've been here 16 years, half my working life, so I will have a lot of adjusting to do. In the end it's the people I will miss - colleagues, customers, and the noting communities who I've never met but feel I've known for years. If anyone wants to be bored witless about hifi, Analogue Addicts (see note in here of the same name) or life in general, or just wants to keep in touch, you can E-mail me on:- VBORMC::"[email protected]", (or DECWRL::"[email protected]") via VMS mail, or [email protected]@internet via ALL-IN-1. Bon chance! Dave | |||||
| 316.4 | CHEFS::TAFF::Wob | Robert Screene, UK Finance EUC | Thu Mar 17 1994 17:38 | 6 | |
Good luck Dave. I'm sorry you won't be noting here in future. Make plans and advance. Best regards, Robert. | |||||
| 316.5 | TASTY::JEFFERY | Children need to learn about X in school | Fri Mar 18 1994 09:42 | 5 | |
Cheers Dave, We will miss your notes and moderation! Mark. | |||||
| 316.6 | Me too | WOTVAX::MEAKINS | Clive Meakins @OLO | Mon Mar 21 1994 13:35 | 11 |
Well, I'm on my way too. Keep an eye open for further article in the
Hi-Fi press, I'm planning some more.
While I'm wrtiing this note I should say that I've just added a second
pair of monobloc power amps to drive my ES11's. This is now a very
"amp heavy" system, but the parts didn't cost much, so in money terms
it's well balanced
Bi-amping has had a tremendous effect. The sound is very easily
product, not at all strained, it's better in every way. The speakers
appear as though they are physically much larger.
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