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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DAT wasnt too bad....if you increase sampling rate and expand recording range from 0 decibel to higher than human ear frequency sensitivity wouldnt digital be pretty close bein’ there? Something about hearing by sound waves passing through your body bypassing the tympanic membrane and goin strait to the cochlea.
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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.
Vinyl will always have a market with purists as it provide a very rich sound.
I have my son my old Yamaha stuff I bought at the PX in Korea in 83. He loves it.
Put a scratch on vinyl and it will still play,
Put that same scratch on a CD and you’ll have to replace that CD
” Just because your ears cannot discern the OBVIOUS superiority of analog does not change reality. Anybody who says digital is better is merely contrarian. That, or they just crappy ears. Usually it’s both. “
ROTFLMAO!
“I also tend to enjoy the greater stereo separation on the vinyl.”
You are joking, right?
You have zero clue of what you speak. This is just totally and completely untrue.
“Vinyl will always have a market with purists as it provide a very rich sound. “
That ‘rich’ sound is the loss of higher frequencies due to filtering.
“Put that same scratch on a CD and you’ll have to replace that CD”
It takes only a minute to make a digital copy which plays back better than the original CD.
I agree with you, Texasgator. CDs are vastly superior in sound than vinyls.
love cds.
vinyl is too blurry and noisy
downloads are often compressed and missing notes
CD is the gold standard.
“I agree with you, Texasgator. CDs are vastly superior in sound than vinyls.”
Some CD’s sound like crap but that is the fault of the producer, not the format.
” And while CDs were once superior to digital music, which early on was compressed and thin-sounding, streaming digital fidelity has vastly improved over the years, as have audio systems adapted to play streaming music.”
er, CDs are digital music. But it is true that streaming players have improved to a point crappy music is ALMOST acceptable for background listening.
“You just tell me when turntables start coming back with tube amps to plug in. Pioneer or Marantz will be fine.”
Take a visit to a good Best Buy and go into their Magnolia room!
A friend is a highly acclaimed mastering engineer who gifted me an acetate cut using a 300B amplifier of a Doobie Bros album he remastered. It was really cool to watch the cutting process.
Good news: incredible sound - as close to the master tape as one can get.
Bad news: it has limited plays so I rarely play it.
That said...
The Hi-Rez digital 24-bit downloads can surpass vinyl - it’s all in the mastering.
Vinyl does have limitations - dynamic & bass range (especially in the inner grooves) and, obviously, overall playing time.
Amazon is THE source for CDs.
Keep in mind, CDs are higher resolution than MP3 - actually, there is a ton of detail that is lopped off in MP3s.
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