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LPs, v. iPods - round 1

Controversy! While watching the Yankees beat (finally) the Red Sox yesterday, I saw a great TV ad. A guy fights with his significant other because of the giant stacks of LPs all around the apartment. Clutter, clutter everywhere, nor any place to sit!! She storms out, flinging a record at him.

Next scene … he proceeds to rip every record to an electronic file and loads the files onto what appears to be an iPod in a docking station.

When the girlfriend returns home, all the records are gone and the spotlessly clean apartment is decorated in some sort of post-modern IKEA stuff. Where did the records go? A tag sale? No time for that. Goodwill? Maybe. A dumpster? Most likely.

The punch line of the ad is to buy the vendor’s digital audio product – because low bit rate digital is A-OK – and restore harmonic bliss to your life. The subtext of no need for high quality audio reproduction in your life is lost to all but we audio hobbyists and music lovers, I suppose.

I don’t really know why, but this ad really bugged me. I like the Yankees and the Red Sox. I like records. I like girls. I even like the iPod. Maybe it’s the representation of music lovers, record collectors, audiophiles as socially deficient pack rats. Are we really perceived by society as such?

Just a rant, I guess.

Bob R.
rmrobinson1957
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Did you read the article about Ry Cooder in Stereophile? He didn't like the sound of his CDs and asked that the master be ripped to an ipod before the final master was released. Like most of us here the word "heresy" was used. But Ry Cooder found it more pleasing to listen to.

I believe Robert Baird wrote the article. It was the last page of a Stereophile issue fairly recently.
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audiotomb
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round 1

guy with no nuts - an ipod, happy girl friend and no lps

me - an ignore ipod, dump the girlfriend, keep lps

gotta love those ipod docking stations - this is hi fi?
armstrod
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Hello,

My name is David, and I am a socially deficient pack rat. I don't own a TV, but I have vinyl all over my family room.

There. I feel better already.

Anyone want to be my sponsor?

:-)

David
mariasplunge
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David,
All hail to the no tv crowd. How many here can say that. mMaybe just you and me. After all, why enslave the mind with 1 and 0's when you can have the whole range.

I'll sponsor you. I think I'll call this organization "have not a tv and fellin' better every day."

Peter
tfkaudio
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I'm almost part of the "don't own a TV" crowd. I own one, but I rarely use it. I plugged it in to watch the World Series last October, and it's been unplugged ever since that god-awful series came to a merciful conclusion.
But, I finally saw said commercial at my girlfriend's house. When the commercial started, she said "that's you!" (apartment full of LPs). When it ended, she said "That's not you!" (apartment with iPod and all LP's gone).
And she doesn't want me to be that guy. I've found my true love!

Cheers.
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