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Vinyl On Pace To Outsell CDs For The First Time Since 1986
Rolling Stone ^ | September 11, 2019 | Elias Leight

Posted on 09/11/2019 1:53:53 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer

“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 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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: analog; cds; didyousearchdummy; recordplayer; records; recordstore; vinyl
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

People who prefer LPs to CDs must not be cat people. LPs are cat fur attractors.


21 posted on 09/11/2019 2:19:59 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Gay State Conservative
I'll see you, and raise you...


22 posted on 09/11/2019 2:23:46 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

After discovering Discogs, I can attest that I am doing my part to make this happen!


23 posted on 09/11/2019 2:24:49 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
They are kind of hard to find. Stuff like THIS.
24 posted on 09/11/2019 2:26:47 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Especially once you listen to the pops and crackles on a vinyl LP and try to keep the dust off them.


25 posted on 09/11/2019 2:27:39 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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To: Nothingburger
I’m happy to report that my classical CD collection is better than anything I could have hoped for in vinyl. Not only is the selection much greater today but you don’t have to worry about surface noise or warping a CD with simply a warm look.

I've loved music (just about everything but jazz,country and classical) since I was a kid.For years I've been lucky enough to live in a town that's part of a library "consortium" that,collectively,owns many,many thousands of music CDs.Thanks to that consortium's website being searchable by title and my acquiring the ability to use a CD burner I've acquired a music collection of about 6,000 songs...all for the price of some blank CD-Rs and some free time.

26 posted on 09/11/2019 2:29:41 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: RatRipper

Still have my Teckics SL-1200 circa 1977. Waiting for the wide ties to come back too!


27 posted on 09/11/2019 2:32:32 PM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: dfwgator

OK,I fold! ;-)


28 posted on 09/11/2019 2:32:45 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
There is a line of saxophones called P. Mauriat. They are the only competitor Selmer has had in the last 20 years. In fact, my teacher, who was a Selmer artist forever, is now a P. Mauriat artist.

I was a Selmer guy my whole career, never played a Mauriat, so I don't know.

29 posted on 09/11/2019 2:34:50 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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To: TexasGator

No need. it is mathematically proven that digital audio recordings can be reproduced 100% faithfully as long as the sampling rate is at least twice as high as the highest audio frequency. No one on this planet can hear a frequency of 20.5 kHz or greater. Personally I can’t hear anything above 12.5kHz.


30 posted on 09/11/2019 2:35:20 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

time for the Herb Alpert White Cream album tonight just to gawk at the cover!


31 posted on 09/11/2019 2:35:20 PM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Way back, I would buy a record and immediately record it onto a Maxell cassette, so I wouldn’t wear the record out.


32 posted on 09/11/2019 2:36:13 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer
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33 posted on 09/11/2019 2:37:03 PM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: forgotten man
Commercial Photography
34 posted on 09/11/2019 2:37:03 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Best thing about LPs, is that sometimes you’d get a real cool extra, like ELO’s “Out of The Blue” with a cardboard ELO Spaceship you could assemble and hang from your ceiling.


35 posted on 09/11/2019 2:38:09 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RatRipper

Mine was stolen, along with all my hi-fi equipment, long ago. (Sigh.)


36 posted on 09/11/2019 2:39:34 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Gay State Conservative
CDs are losing out to other forms of digital music. I haven't bought a CD in years but my iTunes collection grows all the time.

LPs are "retro" and enjoying a comeback.

37 posted on 09/11/2019 2:39:53 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Telarc Digital 1812 (Cincinnati).


38 posted on 09/11/2019 2:41:37 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Mouton
Commercial Photography
39 posted on 09/11/2019 2:41:56 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“No need. it is mathematically proven that digital audio recordings can be reproduced 100% faithfully as long as the sampling rate is at least twice as high as the highest audio frequency. No one on this planet can hear a frequency of 20.5 kHz or greater. Personally I can’t hear anything above 12.5kHz.”

I learned about the Nyquist frequency but you really need some schooling on this subject!

The audio reproduction cannot be 100% faithfully reproduced to 20khz using a 44.1 kHz sampling rate.


40 posted on 09/11/2019 2:42:14 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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