Mr.
Langston -

It was with great interest that I perused the essay to which you refer. Your points about sound quality and album artwork were, in my view, quite apt and resonant.


Unlike you, I have by habit been a "late adopter". I still do not have an iPhone, and I did not get a CD player until 1989, if memory serves (it doesn't). Another difference is that I have never spent more than a few months without an active vinyl collection, and I say that with more than a little pride.


As I mentioned, I found your ideas about sound quality and album art most interesting. I feel, however, some necessity of disagreement with your thesis that digital music-listening is somehow a "private" experience while its vinyl counterpart is not.
Pace Mr Chamberlin, your own "Self-Portrait with Lamp and Leather Chair" is itself evocative of a private and even solitary experience.
Does not the increased portability of digital music at least imply that it can be more easily removed from your private residence than vinyl records?

But these are small points, differences of degree rather than of kind. Many thanks for the interesting pieces.


Yrs., &c.
,
S.
Park
Chairman