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...”
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Hmmm . . . I still have my direct drive turntable.
There are a million reasons to prefer CDs over anything else.And to me CDs include SACD and DVD-Audio.
Wonder if the Record Bar will make a comeback also?
The Late Phil Hartman, of Saturday Night Live, designed a lot of them.
Now bring back a stackable record player, so we won’t have to stop every 20 minutes of what we are doing and change the record!
And Blu-ray Audio. The only time I would prefer an LP to a CD is if the engineers ruined the original sound with remastering. I kept a lot of Sinatra Capitol LPs because the Bob Norberg produced CDs were terrible. MoFi came out with about 6 of them on SACD and there are HD download versions of the rest.
Now the only LPs I hang onto are of things not available on CD.
I miss Peaches.
No problem. They all meet the 24 hour window!
I have a footlocker full of vinyl LP records from the 70’s and 80’s. All in pristine condition. They have only been played on my Thorens turntable with a Microacoustics cartridge.
Thank goodness the download sites allow you to sample.
Crap digitized in hi-res is still crap.
“I know that there are high quality audio formats that accompany many Blurays...but I didn’t know that such formats were available for music CDs. “
CD’s are 44.1/16 bit but you can download albums at higher resolution.
Having to sell my classical LP collection around 1995 wasn’t exactly a happy time for me. Twenty years and maybe 800 titles all gone because I had to move for new job, and quickly, and it was a choice between my history books or my music.
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.
The only upside of LP is that the analog sound of a really fine pressing is warmer than that of a CD.
But to get to that point in the LP era, you had to spend a ton of money, which as a young man I didn’t have.
I remember going to the record store on weekends and looking at Deutsche Grammophon or Philips LPs that cost $9 or so — a fortune to me on a student’s income. So, I settled for budget labels like Nonesuch, Turnabout Vox, Seraphim, Crossroads, etc.
Today, all those top-end labels can be purchased used very affordably, and there’s little need to worry about damage.
So, after 40-plus years of collecting, I’m pretty happy.
Time to put on some Brahms.
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