[I'm very pleased to hear it. - FEd]

Actually, back in the 1950s there were cars with turntables. Click my name.

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Andrew

I’m going to have to explain this to my wife, she will think I have lost it if I suggest getting a record player, mind you.

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Graham

Graham, vinyl was always better quality and record companies and equipment manufacturers never tried to hide it. Vinyl has better dynamic range and no CD is even close to it. Some new formats – SACD and DVD-Audio – are theoretically close, but the problem with them is they are not popular in sense of number of players sold and number of records released in those formats.

Another thing: SACD is more popular in Europe and DVD-Audio in the USA, but it is a different topic. The problem with vinyl was/is size of records, limited duration of recordings (it’s now up to about 50 mins, it depends on the type of the music – you need to change the side of the LP during that time of course), no possibility of further development (I have not heard about record players for cars or portable turntables).

Another thing, vinyl suffers with every single use, and you hear scratches quickly even if you are careful with your records.

But in sense of quality of sound reproduction, vinyl is the best. CD was by far more comfortable to use nearly 80 mins (now) on one side, you can use your records for quite long with nearly the same quality, and what is very important, alternative machines with which you can play them (car systems, portable players, possibility of inserting them into computer drives for extended features and so on).

It was not quality of sound reproduction which made CD successful, but comfort of use. The same is with downloads, even lower quality than CD (OK, you can say FLAC file is the same, but generally people prefer compressed MP3).

The music clip on the homepage, to me sounds like a mix of Echoes, and a variation of Take a Breath.

I agree that it would fit in a James Bond movie.