Posted on 06/21/2017 9:41:00 AM PDT by Logicbox
The British business at the forefront of the global recommence revolution, musicMagpie, have studied the most popular platforms for streaming or purchasing music, such as Spotify, Google Music, Tidal and iTunes. The research looks at how much a music artist makes when a single, album or vinyl record is purchased. An extraordinary example is this, Beyoncé would need us to listen to one of her songs 12.5 million times on Apple Music in order to meet the UK's yearly minimum wage of £14,625.
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I guess that makes sense that most indie artists are big on vinyl. And a lot of the old school bands are still putting it out, like the Cure have a big deluxe edition something or other coming out soon I’ve heard.
When I sold my house almost 20 years ago I threw 40 years of vinyl in the trash for the city to pick up the next morning.
It disappeared within the hour.
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Still spin vinyl on my Techniques linear tracker.
I guess people have forgotten that vinyl compresses the sound and attenuates the lower frequencies. The pops and crackles are an additional feature.
Vinyl has its physical limitations, too soft and attracts dust.
Don’t forget that you damage the record a little each time you listen. I heard about laser pickups that measure the groove without touching it, but I don’t know if those are commercially available.
There have been various attempts at selling laser turntables over the last 30 years or so. The only company currently producing them is ELP out of Japan ( http://elpj.com/ )
Prices start at $15,000.00 although there's a used one on EBay for $3,500.
Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhh!
“Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhh!”
I even tossed the LP with Benny Goodman’s Carnegie Hall concert———needless to say I don’t confess the this entire thing very often,but it IS true.
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We wouldn’t be having this discussion about the revival of vinyl if they had settled the SACD versus DVD-Audio war back in the late 1990’s. If we had standardized on DVD-Audio, we would right now enjoy 24 to 32 bit audio with a sampling rate as high as 176 kHz. And that high sampling rate means even very high frequency sounds are extremely clear, which makes a huge difference for a symphony orchestra.
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