No one uses either. They go on Amazon or ITunes and down load them.
Now bring back a record player that we can stack records on. I hate having to change a record every 20 minutes.
The biggest change in vinyl LPs recently is 180 gram vinyl.
https://blog.fluance.com/180-gram-vinyl/
Some of the LPs of some of the top soloists and groups are being re-pressed - remastered from original sources - in 180 gram vinyl. They get premium prices.
Vinyl needs to enjoy its short-lived ascendancy. As soon as those 8 tracks hit the market, vinyl will be on the ropes.
The place I used to go buy vinyl at used to have a great location where at the back they had a large collection of classical music records (many going for a couple of bucks or so). Some absolutely lovely finds with ones that were made in the 1950s or 60s that still sound great. I could still spend hours in a place like that (probably would drive a prospective girlfriend nuts, lol).
CDs have no place today. Vinyl remains the preferred format for audiophiles. For the overwhelming majority of us who just want to listen to music, streaming services and digital downloading are vast improvements over the CD model.
One would hope. CDs as a flooring option doesn’t work so well.
Hey Rolling Stone, how many petroleum products are used, not only in the production of Vinyl and CDs, but in the raw materials? Vinyl = Plastics = petroleum (i.e. Big Oil Villain)
This isn’t a triumph for vinyl as much as a decline in CD sales to MP3s and other digital download media.
Still, I sold off my vinyl collection of 70s and 80s music before moving to Panama and made about $130 in the process. Then I sold about 98% of my CD collection and made around $250.
Ridiculous. How are they going to distribute all those AOL memberships, hmm?
Vinyl is a pain in the butt. Guess that’s why I only have a little over 300 of them (still).
This is strictly a US hipster thing. You don’t see it overseas. Its also ridiculous. Why would you go out of your way to adopt thoroughly outdated technology? Do you go out in the morning to crank start your model T also?
You just tell me when turntables start coming back with tube amps to plug in. Pioneer or Marantz will be fine.
With vinyl, it's a whole wonderful experience. Good sounds, artwork, poetry, liner notes about the musicians. The best of it is cultural treasure.
A few years ago my cousin showed me the difference between digital and vinyl and daaamn, the difference was incredible. Two copies of the same song “Kodachrome” by Paul Simon, he had the CD copy and the vinyl record copy and both went through the same system to speakers and the CD did not even compare to the insane fidelity of the vinyl. It was like the difference between hearing the band live and hearing it recorded. It’s a real shame vinyl went out
After selling all my LPs before I went to college in ‘84, then moving to CDs after graduation, then moving to MP3s and on to lossless FLAC, I’ve started buying my old LPs again. Might not sound quite as clean, definitely requires a lot more space and more careful handling, but there’s nothing like sitting in front of my turntable with my headphones on, looking at the large format album art and lyrics, and watching the vinyl spin.
I miss my young ears.
Do music snobs sip snobbish wine while they sit around denigrating their lessers?
bttt