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Rock Docs's avatar

Ok, where do I, a music fan, sign up?

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Scott Soloway's avatar

There are two major flaws in your argument.

1. You have fallen into “The market is huge” trap. The flaw is the larger the market the more difficult it is to achieve a given market share; so while 10% may seem small it represents a Mt. Everest size “hill to climb”.

2. The “Thinking of a general idea is the hard part of inventing something.” mistake. No, just because you have brought up the idea of “something better” doesn’t mean that something better is practical or even economically feasible. Power generation by fusion anyone?

You also neglected the evidence - since the initial development of the LP there has been virtually no improvement in the intrinsic technology. The primary characteristics of better sounding LPs has been purer vinyl and slower, more restricted pressing runs.

In addition you were apparently sniffing fairy dust in proposing the selling price of your new discs. $15 today is the equivalent of $2.25 back in 1972 when the actual selling price of LPs was about twice that and unit sales volume dwarfed anything even remotely possible now for a physical medium.

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