OT - Importance of CD/digital vs vinyl

NightAire wrote: My understanding was that styrene sounded OK... for ONE playing. By the second playing, they started deteriorating, as I understand.

A bit of an exaggeration, and again it depends on the quality of the material used. I'm an east coast guy, so I don't have a
lot of experience with Monarch pressings, but I've heard that they sound very good. Most A&M singles in the 70s were on styrene
and they sounded good too. Columbia 45s kind of fit your description...first couple plays were OK, but they wore quickly.
OTOH, a lot of stuff that was pressed on vinyl sounds like crap. Most any Capitol 45 from the 70s is a popfest, as were many
RCA singles of that era and let's not even get going on Dunhill/ABC or Motown.

Edited by Hykker