Interesting Vinyl news

Posted by: trickytree on 07 November 2003

After reading RICHYH's post about the beatles reissues I had a look at the Diverse website and came across another interesting snippit within the Classic Records Reissues postponed thread. There plan to reissue Bob Dylan recordings have been put on hold as........Sony considers the developing vinyl market.....

Any thoughts on this? Is it good news for vinyl users or a return to the bad old days of dreadfull 1980's pressings as the money men see a way of jumping on the bandwagon?

Paul.
Posted on: 08 November 2003 by RICHYH
its bad news I think.
Posted on: 08 November 2003 by Mick P
Chaps

New vinyl tends to be the province of those who insist on quality. If the vinyl is bad, it will not sell. I suspect they will produce a premium product at a premium price.

Regards

Mick
Posted on: 09 November 2003 by trickytree
Mick,

I do hope your right, but to expand on the subject a little, there is this THREAD which discusses the future of music reproduction in general. I to think that sound quality for the mass market will take a back seat to convenience, and that the PC will integrate with AV in the not to distant future. Sound quality will be the sole province of specialist HIFI companies, but what format will the software take?

CD has the distraction of HDCD, DVD-A and all the recordable formats that I know little about.

Vinyl has the advantage of not being embroiled in a format war. Records are (generaly) black, round and can be played on any TT from any part of the world. The technology is so out of date the large electronic giants have no interest in messing around with it.

Or could Vinyl and some form of CD co exist as the high quality future of music reproduction?

Paul.