Interesting article, but by no means the death knell for cds and vinyl.
MP3s may sound ok on a smaller sound system, but they sound for crap when
played on a nice system, unless they have been ripped at a high bitrate.
Pioneer's new MP3 player is pretty cool, though...but I'm sticking with my
CDJ 1000s and my Technics 1500 for now. By the way, that pic of "Donnie
Darkwave" cracked me up. Sure, those Ipods can hold lots of songs, but what
happens when some drunken idiot saunters over to his setup, yaks it up with
our hero...and then while walking away, snags one of the wires, yanking
those precious IPods to their doom? I can just see one of those things
shattering into millions of pieces. Hell, one spilled drink could wipe out
half his library. Technology is so fragile these days...
The "anyone can be a DJ" line amused me as well. True, mixing isn't
everything (just ask Gilles Peterson), but most people couldn't program a
set to save their lives. Most "DJs" I've seen these days are spinning
trance because it's (for the most part) brainless music and it's easy to
mix....THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP....bah, I say!
Just my humble opinion...
>From: Elson Trinidad <elson@westworld.com>
>To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: [acid-jazz] The death of vinyl AND CDs?
>Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 04:17:49 -0700
>
>MP3Js in da house?
>
>http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/07/27/digital.disc.jockeys.ap/index.html
>
>
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>: . elson trinidad, los angeles, california, usa
>: . elson@westworld.com : www.westworld.com/~elson
>: . groove to the futurethnic beats of e:trinity at www.e-trinity.org and
>www.mp3.com/etrinity
>
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