Vinyl On Pace To Outsell CDs For The First Time Since 1986

Rolling Stone ^ | September 11, 2019 | Elias Leight

[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...”

[Menehune56]

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

[dfwgator]

I'll see you, and raise you...

[bigbob]

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

[Sans-Culotte]

They are kind of hard to find. Stuff like THIS.

[Blood of Tyrants]

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

[Gay State Conservative]

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.

[Mouton]

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

[Gay State Conservative]

OK,I fold! ;-)

[real saxophonist]

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.

[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.

[Mouton]

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

[real saxophonist]

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

[csvset]

Some may find this app useful

Turn YouTube videos into MP3 files, fast and easy

Convert youtube videos to mp3.

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

[dfwgator]

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.

[YogicCowboy]

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

[Alberta's Child]

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.

[YogicCowboy]

Telarc Digital 1812 (Cincinnati).

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

[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.”

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.