About five years ago I invested in a high price, high quality radio/cd player and have really appreciated the sound it gives out. Regular communications arrive in the mailbox urging me to update my Model T version or buy swishy accessories, but so far I have resisted.
It seems strange then to find myself in the unexpected situation of feeling disloyal for considering a different gadget altogether.
With increasing interest I have been reading advertisements for a sort of mega non-portable MP3 player. You can upload the whole of your music collection into this black & silver box and then sit back and choose what to listen to with hardly more effort (so the copywriter assures us) than changing channels on the tv.
I was blissfully considering the benefits of this lifestyle when I came across a survey on the website - the manufacturer is seeking information about how many cds his customers/prospective customers have. Apparently so far he has gathered that the average number per collection is 1100 - though the most common number (is that the mode?) is around 300. What drives up the average is the number of his customers with collections of more than 3000.
Unfortunately this has had quite a deflating effect on my desire to buy.
As you will understand when I tell you that even after Christmas has come and gone, my cd collection will number -
25!!
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