Keith G wrote:
"Roy" x@y wrote in message ...
Keith G wrote:
...so it must be true!

What was interesting was the young lad on the TV prog said what he like
about the singles was the physical aspect of having something to see and
hold! (As opposed to the 'virtual music' of the iPods!) PG also said
summat like playing a record involved the visual sense and watching the
record play was an important part of the experience!!

So nothing to do with the quality of the sound then?


Not particularly, it would seem. The news report was very brief but the
point the lad was making was that it's better to have something *physical*
to play than mere files on the iPod things. FWIW, I concur..

Well as my eyesight gets worse with age, I do concede the superior
"handleability" of LPs (well if you want to read the sleeve notes anyhow).


But what are you saying - vinyl singles, the 'wireless' and, say, 256K MP3s
don't sound good? (Especially to someone who's not hung up on ''accuracy'
&c.....?)

What do you listen to:

Out jogging?

Nothing

At work?

Nothing

In the bathroom?

My own singing

In the kitchen?

Anything via the open doors from the living room

In the toilet?

See bathroom

In the car?

Radio or CD (though the acoustic of the average car makes the source
medium pretty immaterial)

On a train/bus/plane?

iPOD

In the shed/garage/workshop?

Nothing

In the garden?*

Nothing

On holiday?

Usually nothing though sometimes iPOD


(Did I miss anything...?? :-)

The living room (where I do most of my listening).
Usually CD with the exception of my LP collection, Radio 3, sometimes
iTunes on the Mac or iPOD via the hi-fi.

Roy.