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Has vinyl peaked?

I was talking to the guy at my records store and he was complaining about RSD, He was telling me that between the official and non official record store day releases they have over 400 new titles coming in. He was saying " That takes up a whole section of my store, its just too much!" how quickly a blessing becomes a curse. He did say they are expecting their biggest crowd yet this year, we'll see.
 
Frank Sol said:
Last 10 days I've purchased 2 new MoFi and 10 used LPs from a local brick & mortar
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JohnVF said:
The fun to me is had in finding stuff in stores. Its not so much about the music contained on it, but about the record itself, where I got it, who I was with, etc. That is what separates it from digital for me. I have so many records now, though, that that sentimentality is really becoming pointless.
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Just this week I purchased 100 inside & 100 outside liners from sleevecity and I thought... This will probably be my last purchase. I have sooooooo many LPs which never make the 'rotation' :sigh:

One thing I've started doing tho... Culling-Out LPs and giving them away to younger people mostly in their 20s to carry it on :D One kid works at the UPS store , one at my coffee shop and another at the local grocer.

BTW-- the latest gem I uncovered this week is the double album by Harry Chapin , 'Greatest Stories Live' , near mint :music:
 
The problem with getting the biggest crowd ever on one day is all the people that, the following year, are saying "hell no I ain't doing that again, it was a miserable mad house". Which is what happened to myself and my record-buying friend two years ago. Its like the bands I loved to see in small bars but hate to see in big venues now as the connection is lost. I know, it's typical snob behavior to some, but the intimacy of the experience and the crowd all being there from the same motivation was a big draw to me. Now its just this mad house of people that by and large are a lot more rude than those who used to be into records just 10 years ago. I guess that I should just say that one of the reasons I, personally, am souring on records besides my love for digital these days, is that the record hobby has begun to attract a hoard of assholes. I can't stand being around those people. Dicks pushing your pile of stuff out of the way, jumping ahead of you in a stack. Loud-mouthed hipster kids acting like they've been doing this **** for longer than they've been alive. The obnoxious end-of-the-line-late-joining-crowd is what ruins most good things in life.
 
Frank Sol said:
Just this week I purchased 100 inside & 100 outside liners from sleevecity and I thought... This will probably be my last purchase. I have sooooooo many LPs which never make the 'rotation' :sigh:

One thing I've started doing tho... Culling-Out LPs and giving them away to younger people mostly in their 20s to carry it on :D One kid works at the UPS store , one at my coffee shop and another at the local grocer.

BTW-- the latest gem I uncovered this week is the double album by Harry Chapin , 'Greatest Stories Live' , near mint :music:
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I haven't really thought about it but I've been giving records lately to people that come over. I have about 1000 too many and while I could care less about having certain titles, they mean a lot more to somebody who doesn't have a lot of records. Especially now that almost everything is at least $5, no matter what it is.
 
I hope so. Even some of the second hand stores that used to sell albums reasonably priced, now think their old scratched up albums are gold. I love vinyl and I buy it new and used but the real deals nowadays are CD's. You can pick up CD's for almost nothing.
 
I understand where John is coming from, last year at some record stores I was at it was a F'n madhouse. people grabbing and pushing people out of the way, it was disgusting. two stores I went to only let a certain number of people in at a time, that was a much better way of doing it. When I talked to my guy at Euclid he told me they let 5 people in at a time, when someone is done they let someone else in. You have to get there early if you want first dibs, he said last year they had people at 8am waiting for their 11am open time. Not sure what time I am going to go down there.
 
I haven't been to San Diego in years. I'm in LA at the moment (work) but used to live in Orange County. There were NO record stores of any merit behind the orange curtain. I had to drive to SD or Amoeba up in Hollywood. If I had a car at my disposal today I'd head up to Amoeba...love that store and everybody is usually pretty friendly despite it being really crowded. LA gets a bad rap.

I wish I'd known about the one you mentioned, it looks great. My time in CA coincided with my last lull in record buying (more CDs...driving a lot) so I sought out more CD-centric places, but I always looked for certain things I thought I'd never find. And which were recently reissued.
 
Toob said:
I hope so. Even some of the second hand stores that used to sell albums reasonably priced, now think their old scratched up albums are gold. I love vinyl and I buy it new and used but the real deals nowadays are CD's. You can pick up CD's for almost nothing.
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I agree with that. Here a thrift store in the span of just a few months went from records being $0.25 to $3 and now they are getting prices from eBay. So much for that being a nice place to find stuff. Another place used to sell records for $1 but now prices range from 3-10 bucks and they don't go by condition they go by artist.

About the only places I know that haven't had huge price adjustments are record stores.
 
I think now vinyl peaked and is on decline. I just returned from NY Audio show. And if last year every other room had turntable as a source, now you can see it in only one of 6-7. Even then it is not the only source and digital source is used along with analog. Most digital sources are computers feeding either PCM or DSD to outboard DAC. There were no new TT designs other than already discussed here direct drive table from VPI (which, by the way, sounded very good).

As a sign of new times there was also workshop on transferring vinyl to digital files. There was significant number of people attending it. The most advanced idea was to do RIAA correction in digital domain after A/D conversion.
 
for_p1 said:
As a sign of new times there was also workshop on transferring vinyl to digital files. There was significant number of people attending it. The most advanced idea was to do RIAA correction in digital domain after A/D conversion.
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A guy that shops at the local record store buys a couple hundred dollars worth of vinyl on fridays and transfers it to digital over the weekend then trades it back in and buys more on Monday and transfers it on Fridays and on and on. One of the workers there told me the guy has probably ripped a few thousand records.
 
ra7c7er said:
A guy that shops at the local record store buys a couple hundred dollars worth of vinyl on fridays and transfers it to digital over the weekend then trades it back in and buys more on Monday and transfers it on Fridays and on and on. One of the workers there told me the guy has probably ripped a few thousand records.
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I know a torrent tracker that has reference to hundreds, if not thousands vinyl transfers to 24/96 Flac. The problem is that you want to have really high quality table/cartridge combination for that. People can tolerate noise an distortion in live vinyl playback, but much more sensitive to them when playing digital file.
 
for_p1 said:
As a sign of new times there was also workshop on transferring vinyl to digital files. There was significant number of people attending it. The most advanced idea was to do RIAA correction in digital domain after A/D conversion.
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A guy that shops at the local record store buys a couple hundred dollars worth of vinyl on fridays and transfers it to digital over the weekend then trades it back in and buys more on Monday and transfers it a trades it back on Fridays and repeats. One of the workers there told me the guy has probably ripped a few thousand records so far.
 
for_p1 said:
I think now vinyl peaked and is on decline. I just returned from NY Audio show. And if last year every other room had turntable as a source, now you can see it in only one of 6-7. Even then it is not the only source and digital source is used along with analog. Most digital sources are computers feeding either PCM or DSD to outboard DAC. There were no new TT designs other than already discussed here direct drive table from VPI (which, by the way, sounded very good).

As a sign of new times there was also workshop on transferring vinyl to digital files. There was significant number of people attending it. The most advanced idea was to do RIAA correction in digital domain after A/D conversion.
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Now THIS is the conversation I had meant when I started this thread, as I've been seeing this same thing. Turntables are gathering dust in audio circles. This after seemingly 10 years of more interest every year.
 
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