[Taterworks]

Until digital audio files become available sampled at >200kHz from recording, through production and distribution (which is what it would take to give a good digital "picture" of a 20kHz waveform - the Nyquist criterion isn't applicable to audio), there will continue to be a market for high-quality analog sources.

(And as long as some audiophiles continue to build systems that, by design, introduce warmth and euphonic distortion through devices like vacuum tubes, I think there'll continue to be a market for vinyl beyond that.)

[lonewolfny42]

Is Vinyl Dead?

I sure hope so....I'm getting tired of sitting on it.... 


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[rajacat]

(And as long as some audiophiles continue to build systems that, by design, introduce warmth and euphonic distortion through devices like vacuum tubes, I think there'll continue to be a market for vinyl beyond that.)

Hey, we need to have tubes so that we don't have to listen to the cold, sterile, unreal and unmusical SS sound. Music should sound like its' played by humans not robots.

[Mr Content]

Nope, never. It will always have a core market. When something is the best, it just keeps on going.

Mr C aa

[twitch54]

Is Vinyl Dead?

I sure hope so....I'm getting tired of sitting on it....  :

Great reply lonely wolf ! LOL !

[ricmon]

Not to mention the CD Depot in College Park Md. has started carring vinyl in a big way.  A friend call me to let me know they were caring vinyl and I was blown away buy the size of the inventory.  If vinyl is dead no one told them.

[BobM]

vinyl's not dead ... it just smells funny (but that could be some residual cleaning solution)
 

[jimdgoulding]

A good vinyl front end will mess with your mind.  Of the albums I have in both analog and dig, analog comes thru as more sensual to me in my system tho I must admit my most recent purchases have been dig.  Expect that could change as I upgrade. 

[tvyankee]

hey

just read somewhere today that bestbuy is making room on their shelves for vinyl. Pretty crazy.

[lonewolfny42]

hey

just read somewhere today that bestbuy is making room on their shelves for vinyl. Pretty crazy.

Here you go Dave...

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04272009/business/best_buy_turning_the_tables_with_vinyl_166384.htm

[SET Man]

Our two largest local (Philippines) brick and mortar chains (Music One and AstroVision) began selling sealed and pre-owned vinyl this year. If vinyl is dead then it's doing a great job at haunting everybody

Hey!

   Yup, not to mention the haunting beautiful sound I get when I play them on my turntable. The sound of the past performance captured and buried in those grooves come alive with it.

   Unlike the CD of which still alive and well but it is just sounded dead on arrival to me

Take care,
Buddy

[launche]

I was at my local best buy and they had a little corner rack space for vinyl.
Maybe about 6-8 titles, mostly popular rock (Newest Coldplay, GN'R's Appetite & the newest release, A new reunion Police release, Springsteen and the new Pearl Jam everything vinyl box set.  Most of the stuff said 180g vinyl and single records were $20.

[boead]

2007 stats from the RIAA

CD Album Sales – 511 million shipped, $7.45 billion. (down -20% from prior year)

LP Album Sales – 1.3 million shipped, $22.9 million. (up 46 % from prior year)

Digital Download Albums - 42 million DL, $425 million. (up 54 % from prior year)

Digital Download Singles - 810 million DL, $802 million. (up 38 % from prior year)



2008 stats from the RIAA

CD Album Sales – 384 million shipped, $5.47 billion. (down -25% from prior year)

LP Album Sales – 2.9 million shipped, $56.7 million. (up 124 % from prior year)

Digital Download Albums - 57 million DL, $568 million. (up 34 % from prior year)

Digital Download Singles - 1.3 billion DL, $1.02 billion. (up 27 % from prior year)


Looks like CD's are the way to go. 

[bluesky]

If one looks at those English chaps on Ebay, one will find, with a terribly English arrogant sniff in the air, that vinyl listings far outnumber the CD players.  Anecdotally I find many people are coming back to record players and this is not from the audiophile crowd but more "normal" people. 

I am also amazed to see the purveyors of massed produced Chinese media products in the local shopping malls all have several models of record players on display.  Along with rather expensive plastic coned tower speakers that really do make me cringe at their awful sonics, but it appears that size does matter to this particular customer demographic.

Bluesky