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Re: [ARSCLIST] Pristine Audio (?!)
OK come on! I was born in 1959 and I still knew about wax cylinders, wire recorders and diamond discs by the time I was eleven and so did at least one or two of my good friends. If we sell our young people short, it's self-fulfilling prophesy.
RA
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Pristine Audio (?!)
On 06/12/07, Steven C. Barr(x) wrote:
> To make things worse...99.99% of these "millennials" are blissfully
> unaware that such things as 78rpm phonorecords made of a shellac
> compound were EVER manufactured...and would know SFA about how to
> play such a thing if they DID encounter one...! Their definition of
> "music" MIGHT start as far back as the Beatles (though that is highly
> unlikely...?!), but would include little, if anything, that was
> recorded by an analog process (well, they MAY have seen some of the
> modern vinyl discs...?!)...
>
They could hardly have avoided seeing a DJ using vinyl.
Regards
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Don Cox
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