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    Quote Originally Posted by paulf-2007 View Post
    And your point is?
    I find cd much the same as streaming so cd is an inconvenience having to get up and change discs. Vinyl is a more worthwhile inconvenience.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    Houses are so expensive because there aren't enough of them. You can't really say the same thing about hi-fi equipment.
    Some houses in the UK are cheap because they're in places no-one wants to live. AFAIK there's no regional variation within the UK in the price of hifi.

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    Quote Originally Posted by paulf-2007 View Post
    And your point is?
    I find cd much the same as streaming so cd is an inconvenience having to get up and change discs. Vinyl is a more worthwhile inconvenience.
    If you have children you can get them to change the CD for you instead of getting up yourself, thus solving that problem. I've never understood why people don't make more use of their children as domestic servants, it would offset at least some of the cost and inconvenience of having them.

    I don't recommend allowing children anywhere near your turntable or vinyl though, unless you want a broken stylus and chocolate and jam smeared all over your album sleeves.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    If you have children you can get them to change the CD for you instead of getting up yourself, thus solving that problem. I've never understood why people don't make more use of their children as domestic servants, it would offset at least some of the cost and inconvenience of having them.
    I'll try that, but i'll need longer chains, so they can reach the spinner.
    "lack of passion is fatal"


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    I think Homebase does them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    If you have children you can get them to change the CD for you instead of getting up yourself, thus solving that problem. I've never understood why people don't make more use of their children as domestic servants, it would offset at least some of the cost and inconvenience of having them.

    I don't recommend allowing children anywhere near your turntable or vinyl though, unless you want a broken stylus and chocolate and jam smeared all over your album sleeves.
    I wouldn't want jam or chocolate smeared over my CDs either.
    Barry

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    No but it's easier to clean it off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    I wouldn't want jam or chocolate smeared over my CDs either.
    No. Peanut butter is much nicer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    Yes, you have to get up every 20 minutes to turn the record over, re-fit the record clamp,clean the surface with a record brush, check the stylus is clean and cue the pickup arm. Whereas with a CD, you just pop it in the drawer and press 'play' - and you only need do that every 60 minutes or so.
    You have all that to do when playing vinyl? No wonder my records crackle like buggery.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    You have all that to do when playing vinyl? No wonder my records crackle like buggery.
    I have some CDs that 'crackle' - they're transcriptions of live recordings made in the late '40s, early '50s.
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