Part of Scotland never gets very cold because of the Gulf stream.

cheers, Ian

"Keith G" wrote in message
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Arny's slipped up and replied to one of my posts in a direct email. I have
transported it here entirely - apart from anything else, I don't do rufty
tufty in my private correspondence!

(No idea where it belongs, so I've started a new, exciting thread with it! ;-)



----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith G"
Newsgroups: uk.rec.audio
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 6:16 PM
Subject: amazing miracle device



"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote in message
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Why TF do you even bother with all this crap Arny?

Because people even bother with all the false crap that I just rebutted.

For all your OSAFs, putting words into people's mouths, dubious
'technical' information, strawmen arguments and ludicrous tub-thumping,
you haven't, to my knowledge, put *one single person* off vinyl - just
about *everybody* I know with a 'hifi system' uses and *still* enjoys
it!

As if that was my intent.

The words 'protecting the newbies from the dangers of vinyl' (below) were
*yours* a year or two ago....

I just checked google, and it says that nobody named arny ever posted such a
thing in the history of man.


Interesting, see below....



FWIW I am among the very few people I know who has
a vinyl playback system.

I suppose some of your best friends are Jewish also?

Gosh Keith, can't you even get the right metaphor? I didn't say that "my
best friends listen to vinyl", I said that I am among the very few people I
know who has a vinyl playback system.



My fault - it was expecting too much for you to make the leap....


I don't know about everthing that is going on in
the UK, but finding active, in-use vinyl playback equipment outside of
dance halls is pretty hard to do in the US.

Last night there was a record player in Brad Pitt's place (Se7en on DVD),
earlier tonight I noticed Keany Reeves giving Charlize Theron (?) a boxed
set of records - no idea what the film was (I wasn't watching the telly),
but I gather it was her birthday or summat?

Your example fails to be anything like a representative sample. It's pretty
well known that some vinyl playback equipment suppliers have lobbied pretty
hard to get their product onto TV and into the movies. That is hardly
representative of real life in the USA. Next thing I know Keith, you'll be
asking whether or not I have any palm trees in my yard, since you saw some
in reruns of Beverly Hills 90210. ;-)


Now, you're doing it...

I have no idea about 'Beverly Hills 90210', I gather/believe it's a TV prog
but I have never seen it.




Vinyl features in movies (even very recent ones) as a matter of course it
appears - I find it hard to believe you don't know anyone in the real
world who uses it...

Just to head off a stupid question before it happens, Palm trees die when
the ambient temperature gets much below freezing for a day or two. It gets
below freezing for days at a time for something like 3 months of the year
where I live.


I don't why you should have trouble with your palm trees - they even have them
up in Scotland:

http://www.plockton.com/

Perhaps you're using the wrong type??



(Perhaps, if you contacted the UK TV broadcasting companies, you could
get them to stop showing pix of records and turntables on a damn near
*daily* basis and give yourself a better chances of eradicating vinyl
from the planet.....???)

It happens occasionally in the states. There are usually credits to the
vinyl equipment suppliers in among the other credits.

What was it - 'protecting the newbies from the dangers of vinyl'...??

That would be a phrase that you just made up, Keith.


Funny you should say that only now when I first threw the remark at you some 3
years ago....

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....f67409 b01d5d


Maybe your Google's broken...??



No, just rebutting the usual BS from the ignorant and misguided who
actually think that the vinyl format has any unique inherent SQ
advantages.

Wouldn't know and don't care - I play it only for the *sound*....

Make non-responsive comments much, Keith?


Only when people start banging on about accuracy and such when I'm making the
point that even music on the bathroom radio will do me....



Consider this - 50s Jazz and 60s Rock on anything *other* than vinyl....??

(Ludicrous prospect, isn't it! ;-)

There's a rich selection of music recorded before the advent of CD, that is
commercially available on CD.


You're missing the point - Who TF wants it....???


Much of it was made from excellent studio
masters and some was remixed. Being that they are oftenmade from the source
material that the LPs were made from, their sound quality on CD can easily
surpass that of the corresponding LPs.


Nonsense....