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"David Looser" wrote:

"MiNe 109" wrote

*People* abandoned the medium because they couldn't find them in stores.
This happened quickly in the US.

Sorry, I don't buy that. Whilst record company policies might have slightly
hastened the decline of the LP, it can hardly have been the principal reason
for the decline of LP sales. There have been many examples of large
companies losing a lot of money trying to force the public into buying
something they don't want or having the public banging on the doors
demanding a product that a company is reluctant to sell. Had the public
wanted to buy LPs rather than CDs that exactly what they would have done.

I'm glad you accept record company policies may have hastened the
decline. I'm also willing to entertain the possibility that lps had
already lost the battle to the cassette well before cd.

A while back I looked at media sales numbers up to the early nineties
and found lp hung on longer in the UK than the US, which could explain
our different views. Here it was practically overnight that lps
disappeared.

I had given up on classical lps about when cd came along because of
pressing quality problems, so I was excited about the new product.

Stephen

"MiNe 109" wrote in message


I'm glad you accept record company policies may have
hastened the decline.

That's pretty strange all by itself, especially given the big qualifier
"may"

I'm equally glad that you admit that the decline was only hastened, and not
actually caused by any such policies. ;-)

It is all meaningless, now.

I'm also willing to entertain the
possibility that lps had already lost the battle to the
cassette well before cd.

Cassette was the convenience at a cost in sound quality play that vinyl
bigots falsely accuse the CD of being.

A while back I looked at media sales numbers up to the
early nineties and found lp hung on longer in the UK than
the US, which could explain our different views. Here it
was practically overnight that lps disappeared.

If you haven't already figured it out, new tech costs signficiantly more in
the UK (and EU) than in the US.

I had given up on classical lps about when cd came along
because of pressing quality problems, so I was excited
about the new product.

I'm glad to see you finally admit that improved sound quality was a strong
factor in the rapid distruction of the LP market by the CD. ;-)