Posted on 09/07/2019 9:08:03 AM PDT by fidelis
Sales of vinyl records have enjoyed constant growth in recent years. At the same time, CD sales are in a nosedive. Last year, the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) mid-year report suggested that CD sales were declining three times as fast as vinyl sales were growing. In February, the RIAA reported that vinyl sales accounted for more than a third of the revenue coming from physical releases.
This trend continues in RIAA’s 2019 mid-year report, which came out on Thursday. Vinyl records earned $224.1 million (on 8.6 million units) in the first half of 2019, closing in on the $247.9 million (on 18.6 million units) generated by CD sales. Vinyl revenue grew by 12.8% in the second half of 2018 and 12.9% in the first six months of 2019, while the revenue from CDs barely budged. If these trends hold, records will soon be generating more money than compact discs.
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The fact that you praise pandora proves you have no appreciation for good sound.
BASIC pandora is only good for background listening.
I STREAM pandora at 360 but not for true listening.
“For high fidelity sound quality, vinyl has always been superior to CD”
LOL! The first design criteria for CDs was to EXCEED the quality of LPs.
I have a bunch of hi res copies of classic rock, SACD and DVD audio. Some sound great, some are shrill at the proper level of loudness.
Sturgeon’s Law.
I miss my young ears.
Taking it further, the French Baker would have to alter his recipe to stabilize and preserve it for the trip.
No. My hearing is shot from my years working on the flight decks of aircraft carriers. I'm no audiophile. I just like listening to music. I pay for both Pandora and Apple Music and through my $100 garage bookshelf system and the factory deck in my Tacoma, the music I'm hearing sounds just fine.
You can keep your stacks of CDs. I gave mine away and I'll never again bother owning vinyl. For what reason? As I said, my hearing's shot.
They do sound different. Digital sounds more compressed to me. Some times it’s a good thing, like a snare drum snapping. Mostly it’s annoying.
I also tend to enjoy the greater stereo separation on the vinyl.
Dacs, phono preamps, cartridges and so many other aspects can affect sound on either format.
ROTFLMAO!
TANSTAAFL
Heinlein’s Law.
Mmmmm, Sing Along With Mitch?
Yep, I dumped all my CDs last year at Half-Price Books. I got them all converted over before I did it.
I have components. Dual turntable, AR speakers and Hitachi tuner/amp.
All made in the late 70s.
Sufficient for my ears.
You have zero clue of what you speak. This is just totally and completely untrue.
The earliest CDs were pressed from 3rd and 4th generation copies of copies of master tapes with ZERO regard given to fidelity. They were designed to be portable and scratch resistant. It was only later when people complained how crappy they sounded that the record companies figured out how to gouge the consumers once again by released "remastered" versions of the CDs we already bought.
huh??
Do music snobs sip snobbish wine while they sit around denigrating their lessers?
Right, that would sort of be the RIAA curve. Or if we’re talking tape it would be Dolby processing.
Actually more like the chipmunk Christmas for me but I do have hundreds of albums and I’m sure Mitch is there.
There is a K-Tel or two as well.
I wouldn't know. 😎
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