Vinyl In the News Again

[KingBubba]

To me this is really amazing:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradmo...sells-cds-for-the-first-time-since-the-1980s/

 

[spark1]

https://audiokarma.org/forums/index...d-sales-for-the-first-time-since-1986.929257/

CD unit sales are still quite a bit higher. The linked article refers to revenue, not units.

But it will be interesting to see when/if vinyl unit sales exceed CD unit sales. CD could ultimately drop to nearly zero, since CD-quallity downloads and lossless streaming serve as a perfect substitute...whereas vinyl has no perfect substitute.

 

[Condorsat]

CD sales (per unit not revenue) still exceed Vinyl (which has been obsolete as a main stream format for the last 30 years)

Right .. It's like saying ..

Aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?

IMHO .. says more about the continual decline & irrelevance of hard media playing forward. It's becoming niche, super niche, ultra niche .. etc.

 

[donprice]

More new cars/trucks sold than new vinyl albums? Obviously lots of folks are not buying any albums or CDs.

 

[reddodge053]

I sure wish i had not listened back in the day when everyone said classic/muscle cars were dead and could'nt give them away. I sure would not of gotten rid of them.

 

[KingBubba]

I have not bought a CD or a record for 15 years or more. I do not like any of the newer music I have heard.

 

[intro6]

As far as myself, I am hoping CDs stay around, even if at a low level. Although I love my LPs and have long had a decent size collection of them, I don't see getting many more of them, because they just take up too much space. With CDs, you still get to experience the fun of music collecting, but with a significantly smaller space footprint. They can also be stored horizontally, vertically or whatever direction, while LPs need to always be stored vertically. This means that CDs can be stuck almost anywhere, while LPs can't.

 

[the skipper]

Hipsters love to play "vinyls" on their Crosleys because they were told they were better and are cool.

But, vinyl costs more than the same CD. Let's see how long before they realize they can't hear a difference and this trend lasts.

 

[KingBubba]

All music that I play anymore comes from my laptop.The convenience is just so, well, convenient. The ripping stage was long and annoying and not so convenient, but now the files are fun.

 

[Jack Keck]

Hipsters love to play "vinyls" on their Crosleys because they were told they were better and are cool.

But, vinyl costs more than the same CD. Let's see how long before they realize they can't hear a difference and this trend lasts.

CD sound quality vs. LP sound quality has been done to death, so I won't comment on it in general. Listen to what you enjoy and never mind what the rest of us think about it.

HOWEVER, I can't imagine CDs sounding worse than vinyl on a Crosley. I just can't.

 

[Guest158]

The worms turns again! 10-20 years ago I picked up LPs .10c-1$.
Finding good stuff on cd in that range now!
I"ll take it!

 

[Spitfirejoe]

I have not bought a CD or a record for 15 years or more. I do not like any of the newer music I have heard.

This just makes me sad. Not that you haven't bought, but that you haven't heard anything new that tickles your fancy. There is SO much good music being released that it's sometimes hard to keep up with it all. Yeah, it gets drowned out by the constant flow of dreck that comes out. The "best seller charts" reflect that junk in a big way. You have to dig a bit. I still listen to old stuff of course, but I continually find new musicians I like and new stuff from my old favorite musicians. I hardly go a month without listening to the most recent four albums from David Crosby for example.

 

[KingBubba]

Don't feel sad. I am fully satisfied with what I have.