Dead cat bounce?
>>Dead cat bounce?<<
Although I am a vinyl fan, I suspect you are right. The chart implies a “very slowly fading” fad over the last three years.
Playing vinyl is an experience. It forces you to listen to the music. If you are going to go to all that trouble between songs (or between sides on LPs), and that needle wear, you should be enjoying it.
However, as people work through the “actively listening” phase and get back to the 21st century paradigm that listening to prerecorded music is something you do “while you are doing something else” the hassle of flipping records, buying expensive needles/cartridges, etc. will move people back to what is convenient.
Vinyl sounds better than CDs only insomuch as the original masters from which the pressings are made are not victims of the current loudness war. Cd’s that are not victims of this war pretty much blow all vinyl out of the water.
I currently have a little under 600 albums of pretty much all genres, three turntables (two of which are extremely good), six cartridges, and whenever I sit down to just “listen to music” it is either vinyl or open reel. The lions share of my actual listening is MP3 from Limewire.
Oh, loudness war here. It is real: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=loudness+war&aq=0&oq=LOUDNESS+