I, too, believe that the days of the CD are numbered; they will be replaced with memory cards, although not with crummy MP3 encoding (had to throw that in
).
I don't believe that LPs will ever make a comeback in a big way, although there are a lot of people - many of them younger people, including my daughter who is in the music business and has thousands of CDs - who prefer vinyl over CDs, and the number seems to be growing, but will never, in my opinion, reach a significant level.
I think that the idea that sound qualities of the LP are "obviously superior to the CD" is ludicrous. Anecdotally, however, in some instances, the digital remastering of old LPs is done in such a slipshod manner that the old LPs will, in fact, sound better than the CDs. Sometimes the sound engineer will intentionally make tonal changes - and I've even encountered speed and level changes - that can be devastating to the music; don't know why they do this, but it does happen.
Back in the early sixties, the argument was between the new transistor amplifiers and the traditional vacuum tube amps. People said the "transistor sound" was horrible and they couldn't stand it. Some even said that it gave them headaches. Today, there are still some very expensive vacuum tube amplifiers and their supporters praise their "warm" sound, not realizing that the warmth is actually distortion and clipping.
But in the end: Hey, it's music. I have no problem with people who prefer the sound of one amplifier or music reproduction source over another. There's a reason that they put tone controls on pre-amps.
As far as Fox News goes, their job is to disparage everything that doesn't please the far right. Truth and facts are of no concern to them.
Colonel Robert Cunningham has been around for awhile, and is a source of great amusement. I've never seen a reference to any military service by him, so the "Colonel" bit may be his own doing. Look up the phone number on the mail you got from him: it's a liquor store in Albuquerque.
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