HMV RIP

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"Bed"?????

[kernelbogey]

The elephant in the thread is of course the decline of the high street. Simon Jenkins has some interesting things to say about this in a recent piece, although I don't agree with all of it. But a resurrected HMV would need to make a visit by a potential customer more of an interesting experience than the current dead environment that has been on offer.

[cloughie]

"Bed"?????

A humongous pile of silver discs with a mattress on top!

[Alison]

What a shame, the Chelmsford store has remained pretty vibrant with a worthwhile if patchy classical section.

Strangely, dead it was not, always a buzz and a bit of a queue.

I’m reminded I’ve never listened to the box set of Kathryn Stott purchased there.

[Dave2002]

In a recent trip to Dundee I noted the HMV shop there had over 20 feet of shelf space devoted to (IMO) overpriced vinyl LPs, plus some really cheap thingies to play them on.

[cloughie]

In a recent trip to Dundee I noted the HMV shop there had over 20 feet of shelf space devoted to (IMO) overpriced vinyl LPs, plus some really cheap thingies to play them on.

...BUT THERE'S MORE PROFIT IN VINYL THAN CDs - maybe that's where things have gone wrong!

[pastoralguy]

What a pity the record companies couldn't have produced 'high quality' vinyl in the 70's and 80's...

[Alison]

What a pity the record companies couldn't have produced 'high quality' vinyl in the 70's and 80's...

[Dave2002]

What a pity the record companies couldn't have produced 'high quality' vinyl in the 70's and 80's...

Why?

[pastoralguy]

Why?

Even the big companies including DG, EMI and CBS produced discs that were little better than flimsy discs. I still have some of these Lps and have been lucky enough to hear them on top quality systems where their flaws are too obviously magnified.

In fact, I heard a modern vinyl compared with an Lp that had been a favourite of mine and the sound quality was chalk and cheese. The modern Lp is a genuine quality product whereas my vinyl of The Karajan Sibelius 5 on DG was pretty light and quite 'bendable'. Bearing in mind that the modern Lp was £25 and I paid £4.99 in 1978 suggests that we were being grossly overcharged for an inferior product.

No wonder CDs were welcomed with open arms by music lovers.

[Bryn]

Even the big companies including DG, EMI and CBS produced discs that were little better than flimsy discs. I still have some of these Lps and have been lucky enough to hear them on top quality systems where their flaws are too obviously magnified.

In fact, I heard a modern vinyl compared with an Lp that had been a favourite of mine and the sound quality was chalk and cheese. The modern Lp is a genuine quality product whereas my vinyl of The Karajan Sibelius 5 on DG was pretty light and quite 'bendable'. Bearing in mind that the modern Lp was £25 and I paid £4.99 in 1978 suggests that we were being grossly overcharged for an inferior product.

No wonder CDs were welcomed with open arms by music lovers.

Surely the very worst vinyls came from RCA. They got close to Private Eye's Christmas flexis in their lack of substance. Their translucent red vinyl of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra (Ormandy) has excruciating surface noise.

[cloughie]

Why?

I don’t think that deserves an answer unless you are not well versed in the b....ing obvious!

[cloughie]

Even the big companies including DG, EMI and CBS produced discs that were little better than flimsy discs. I still have some of these Lps and have been lucky enough to hear them on top quality systems where their flaws are too obviously magnified.

In fact, I heard a modern vinyl compared with an Lp that had been a favourite of mine and the sound quality was chalk and cheese The modern Lp is a genuine quality product whereas my vinyl of The Karajan Sibelius 5 on DG was pretty light and quite 'bendable'. Bearing in mind that the modern Lp was £25 and I paid £4.99 in 1978 suggests that we were being grossly overcharged for an inferior product.

No wonder CDs were welcomed with open arms by music lovers.

...and would you really want to removing the chalk from the record and the cheese from the stylus?

[Bryn]

...and would you really want to removing the chalk from the record and the cheese from the stylus?

Stylus? Surely you had one of these:

[cloughie]

Stylus? Surely you had one of these:

Not quite, but I still have my Dual deck with its Ortophon cartridge available for occasional use. I had 30 plus years of Vinyl enjoyment before the CD revolution and the world would have been a duller place without them and although I am (not very) temptec by streaming and downloads, CDs are ideal for now!