Lacee -
Saying things like "you're obviously young" or "you have a lot to learn" is immature and rude.
I don't know what gave you an idea that I'm young. I hope you don't claim to be older just to give more weight to your statements - that would be plain silly.
You keep repeating "based on 50's design" - it does not mean they performed the same. Everything around us is based on some older designs - but most of the time is better. The duty of design engineer is to obsolete existing designs/production.
Somehow you claim that Europeans are "way ahead" in recording and technology. What you fail to understand is that there are valid reasons for everything and HDTV mentioned by you was later in US because of government requirement that proposed standard has to be broadcastable in HDTV by air (not true in Europe). Because of this requirement everybody has free access to digital television. Telephone standards like CDMA (spread spectrum) are ahead of European GSM. Just look where progress of technology happened - University of Chicago alone has over 80 Nobel prize winners with more than half of it in Physics and Chemistry. Look where companies like Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, IBM, Motorola etc are located. When I was young and build my EL34 guitar amps I had to translate things from German language since German companies like Telefunken, Siemens, Grundig were dominating. Today US took over and companies like Telefunken went bankrupt (Vishay bought them). English is dominating in technical field and companies like Siemens have engineering meetings in Germany conducted in English (my friend attends).
As for measurement in inches, feet, and ounces - there is nothing wrong with it - especially now when computers handle everything. UK still uses lbs, ounces, inches and to make it even worse other units like "stone". Show me how does it stop progress of technology.
As for quality of recordings - I listen to Beatles "Love" reissue and it is very well recorded - but still does not compare to new digital recordings.
Yoy're saying that there are many things from the past that are better than today. Can you name a few? - Things that nobody was able to make better (but not TT cartridge since I would have hard time to find modern "mono" cartridge to compare). Maybe some cell phones that were made better in 50's than today? How about better quality laser printers in 50's?
Saying things like "you're obviously young" or "you have a lot to learn" is immature and rude.
I don't know what gave you an idea that I'm young. I hope you don't claim to be older just to give more weight to your statements - that would be plain silly.
You keep repeating "based on 50's design" - it does not mean they performed the same. Everything around us is based on some older designs - but most of the time is better. The duty of design engineer is to obsolete existing designs/production.
Somehow you claim that Europeans are "way ahead" in recording and technology. What you fail to understand is that there are valid reasons for everything and HDTV mentioned by you was later in US because of government requirement that proposed standard has to be broadcastable in HDTV by air (not true in Europe). Because of this requirement everybody has free access to digital television. Telephone standards like CDMA (spread spectrum) are ahead of European GSM. Just look where progress of technology happened - University of Chicago alone has over 80 Nobel prize winners with more than half of it in Physics and Chemistry. Look where companies like Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, IBM, Motorola etc are located. When I was young and build my EL34 guitar amps I had to translate things from German language since German companies like Telefunken, Siemens, Grundig were dominating. Today US took over and companies like Telefunken went bankrupt (Vishay bought them). English is dominating in technical field and companies like Siemens have engineering meetings in Germany conducted in English (my friend attends).
As for measurement in inches, feet, and ounces - there is nothing wrong with it - especially now when computers handle everything. UK still uses lbs, ounces, inches and to make it even worse other units like "stone". Show me how does it stop progress of technology.
As for quality of recordings - I listen to Beatles "Love" reissue and it is very well recorded - but still does not compare to new digital recordings.
Yoy're saying that there are many things from the past that are better than today. Can you name a few? - Things that nobody was able to make better (but not TT cartridge since I would have hard time to find modern "mono" cartridge to compare). Maybe some cell phones that were made better in 50's than today? How about better quality laser printers in 50's?