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From:
john/bergmayer
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Ryan Richard Whitehead
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Date:
Wed, 6 Aug 1997 19:10:58 -0700 (MST)
Subject:
Re: (idm) My definitive personal turntable story.
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the fact that some features of records are exploitable for music creation, or are cool in some neat little way, and that you can do all this irrelevant stuff with them, means nothing to my point: they are an inferior format for the playback of recorded music.
quoted 3 lines cd's, by the way, suffer from laser rot: a degradation which begins to> cd's, by the way, suffer from laser rot: a degradation which begins to > become noticable after about 7 years. records are the only archival form > of sound storage. fact.
i have heard that cd-r's rot, but i have heard many times that cd's can last up to a century without degrading. unless you muss them all up, of course. the can rust from the inside if you scratch them right. fact: even if cd's do degrade, before they do you can just make a PERFECT copy and throw away the original. fact: you can't make a perfect copy of a record.