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Vinyl sales while increasing, are a pimple on the ass of music.
Sales of vinyl are negligible, and vinyl suffers from the same problem as Hi Rez downloads- a lack of variety. Sure, some genres and artists are disproportionately represented but someone with well rounded musical tastes is going to starve on a diet of either. With records you're at least in good shape if you're the type of curmudgeon that can dismiss anything released after 1970, though.
Quote from: ecramer on 21 Jun 2009, 02:15 pmWell George i can't really argue that one. Since i am using a dac that up samples my cd's to 192, so i guess i would have to say that i'm not listening to straight red book cd's. but with that in mind with hi rez down loads ithat are not red book you will be tied to what ever sounds good to the provider of the high res for upsampling, and everybody has a different idea of what sounds good to his ear. I'm not sure if i expressed that idea correctly I spent quite a bit of time till i found a dac cd combo that i consistently like. that would be like changing cd dac combo's with every album. if i am thinking right.Ed, c'mon over to the HiRez forum and we can discuss. I don't want to hijack here. Suffice it to say that HiRez is like HDTV. You have bought a DAC (HDTV) that is capable of 192k (1080P). The analogy continues...It's great that you have a DVD player that upconverts your standard def DVD's to 1080P but it's just faux HiDef...sometimes better than the original DVD, but sometimes not..too much "faux" ness (lipstick on a pig). But by buying a HiDef-capable tv and feeding it true Blu_Ray or HD cable content (true HiREz music software like 24/96 or 24/192) does not require you to buy a new tv for every movie! ?Back to the thread:I firmly believe that once the next generation of bandwidth improvements occur (10-100x what we have, like Sweden today, etc.) then all rotating disposal medium will be toast.....and the MP3 generation will have the upper hand even stronger...instant gratification and lower quality vs master tape quality. Hopefully the boutique vendors will find a big enough niche among us music lovers.
Well George i can't really argue that one. Since i am using a dac that up samples my cd's to 192, so i guess i would have to say that i'm not listening to straight red book cd's. but with that in mind with hi rez down loads ithat are not red book you will be tied to what ever sounds good to the provider of the high res for upsampling, and everybody has a different idea of what sounds good to his ear. I'm not sure if i expressed that idea correctly I spent quite a bit of time till i found a dac cd combo that i consistently like. that would be like changing cd dac combo's with every album. if i am thinking right.
I not sure what you mean by that statement but i have been buying a lot of new vinyl and i am not talking about reissues but new groups like the black keys , bat for lashes, fever ray, gossip ect.
Quote from: ecramer on 21 Jun 2009, 08:38 pmI not sure what you mean by that statement but i have been buying a lot of new vinyl and i am not talking about reissues but new groups like the black keys , bat for lashes, fever ray, gossip ect. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Sure, vinyl is a fad embraced by a certain age/subculture of artists, but for grins check and see what the percentage is. For every oddball thing you can find there are 50-100 you can't. Just how many LPs are currently in print?
