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I'm thinking that youngsters are getting burned .

I was thinking that youngsters and the financially challenged are getting burned by the audio press. Do they know that they can have music in the home cheaply? A Rega-Planar 3(or according to some, a Music Hall turntable) and maybe 20 pre-1982 albums will get music in the home, period. You don't have to have the big bucks. What I would like to discuss is those 20 albums. The idea came to me as I was listening to Gerry Rafferty's "City to City". I would include 3 Beatles' albums, their White album, "Abbey Road", and "Magical Mystery Tour"(don't buy these from a store-too expensive.). I have, at least, a class C cd player, and I suggest that you can get music cheaper.
mmakshak
mmakshak OP
589 posts
 
I lost my response again. I think it happens with the shift bar. Anyhow, the young have memory: the old do not. I encourage the young to get involved in this hobby. While the old can outspend you, you've got memory(which they don't have), have time, and can hear high-frequencies(which they cannot). I'm now expecting you youngsters to tell us oldsters something!
kthomas
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I think the young definitely understand that they can have music in the home cheaply - they understand internet radio stations. My 16-year-old son has the most diverse tastes in music of anybody I've ever met - whenever I walk by his room, music is playing, often something I've never heard before, usually catching my ear. He pumps it all through his boom-box, which wouldn't be my choice, but he seems to really enjoy it. He got that as a present, I pay for the internet connection - near as I can tell, he has a rich music-loving life and spends zero on it.

Whether he will ever upgrade the sound quality, who knows. My guess is that it will be a while before he thinks about spending any money on even modest equipment, so long as the free stream of music continues. It's fun, though, since we share music opinions often.
mmakshak OP
589 posts
 
Kthomas, I have a cd called, "Listen Picks", where they claim they have listened to all the music on the Web, and these are the songs that they like best. I'm guessing they are all compressed. Guess what, they sound horrible, compared to cd's. I know that there has been statements about you can't hear the difference. Remember direct-drive turntables, where you had to put in the missing stuff? That's how I would describe compressed recordings. The best of the bunch concentrate on midrange, but even there, you have to provide the missing info with your head.
ogsarg
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I don't understand about kids getting a bad break. A teenager plunks down a couple hundred dollars and carries around several thousand songs downloaded / swapped for free.

In the mid 70's, a couple hundred bucks would get you maybe a combo am/fm phono piece of junk that sounded a little better than a decent table radio.

What was written about in the audio mags of that time was just as unaffordable to the average teen as what it is today.
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