Vinyl Sales Continue To Outpace CD Sales

Started by Solar, July 14, 2021, 12:47:17 PM

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Solar

Ya just can't beat the quality. :thumbup:

Vinyl album sales outpaced CD album sales — with vinyl album volume at 19.2 million versus CD album volume at 18.9 million. Vinyl's impressive 108.2% YOY increase allowed total industry physical albums to experience its first year of growth in years.


https://www.billboard.com/p/u-s-music-mid-year-report-2021/
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Amazing how many are still buying them.  The collapse of the CD market mirrors the same as regards DVD.

To me its kind of stupid.  Blu Ray DVD gives you such great picture and sound.  Streaming really does not come close.


Quote from: Solar on July 14, 2021, 12:47:17 PMYa just can't beat the quality. :thumbup:

Vinyl album sales outpaced CD album sales — with vinyl album volume at 19.2 million versus CD album volume at 18.9 million. Vinyl's impressive 108.2% YOY increase allowed total industry physical albums to experience its first year of growth in years.


https://www.billboard.com/p/u-s-music-mid-year-report-2021/

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Quote from: Solar on July 14, 2021, 12:47:17 PMYa just can't beat the quality. :thumbup:

Vinyl album sales outpaced CD album sales — with vinyl album volume at 19.2 million versus CD album volume at 18.9 million. Vinyl's impressive 108.2% YOY increase allowed total industry physical albums to experience its first year of growth in years.


https://www.billboard.com/p/u-s-music-mid-year-report-2021/

Just last year I gave my son about 50 albums and over 200 single vinyl records. He always enjoyed the growing up and has the equipment for playing them safely. When you get my age it's nice to pass things on.
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Quote from: walkstall on July 14, 2021, 08:30:07 PMJust last year I gave my son about 50 albums and over 200 single vinyl records. He always enjoyed the growing up and has the equipment for playing them safely. When you get my age it's nice to pass things on.
Same here, I'm about to unload around 100 from the 50s to the 70s. :sad:
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Quote from: Solar on July 14, 2021, 08:41:25 PMSame here, I'm about to unload around 100 from the 50s to the 70s. :sad:

I remember one of the first CDs I bought. It was what they used to call an AAD product, meaning that it was recorded (on magnetic tape) and mixed on analog equipment, then (re-)mastered with digital equipment. During one of the cuts, you could plainly hear a truck driving by the studio. In fact, many of the classical recordings I used to pick up at the old Sun TV stores for a dollar were also AADs, and it was quite common to hear someone cough or move around during quieter passages. These things were undetectable on vinyl records, not because they didn't exist in the original master recordings, but because either the vinyl couldn't carry them through, or (usually) because there was so much noise associated with a stylus dragging across a vinyl surface that it covered up such background sounds.

The move to digital was one in which the technology leaped beyond the sausage-making, even beyond the capabilities of the human ear. I NEVER heard a truck or a cough on the AM radio in my car or the hi-fi record players of my youth.

I can't say I miss stereo equipment that was rated for its inescapable "wow" and "hiss" and "rumble" and "harmonic distortion" factors.
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Quote from: TboneAgain on December 15, 2021, 08:15:36 PMI remember one of the first CDs I bought. It was what they used to call an AAD product, meaning that it was recorded (on magnetic tape) and mixed on analog equipment, then (re-)mastered with digital equipment. During one of the cuts, you could plainly hear a truck driving by the studio. In fact, many of the classical recordings I used to pick up at the old Sun TV stores for a dollar were also AADs, and it was quite common to hear someone cough or move around during quieter passages. These things were undetectable on vinyl records, not because they didn't exist in the original master recordings, but because either the vinyl couldn't carry them through, or (usually) because there was so much noise associated with a stylus dragging across a vinyl surface that it covered up such background sounds.

The move to digital was one in which the technology leaped beyond the sausage-making, even beyond the capabilities of the human ear. I NEVER heard a truck or a cough on the AM radio in my car or the hi-fi record players of my youth.

I can't say I miss stereo equipment that was rated for its inescapable "wow" and "hiss" and "rumble" and "harmonic distortion" factors.
Ah yes, the digital vs. analogue debate.
Here's how I see it. Digital gives you a crisp image of a beautiful woman, you can even see her flaws, but vinyl, allows you to feel the warmth of her touch. :smile:
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Quote from: Solar on December 16, 2021, 06:34:22 AMAh yes, the digital vs. analogue debate.
Here's how I see it. Digital gives you a crisp image of a beautiful woman, you can even see her flaws, but vinyl, allows you to feel the warmth of her touch. :smile:
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But the flaws were always there. They were replaced or overridden by really noisy technology. That same technology obscured some truly breathtaking stuff, so many of the finer points that are buried along with the truck and the cough.

I'll take the cleaner sound along with the throat clearings and occasional backfires. Every beauty I've ever known had plenty of flaws; the bad ones told me they weren't there.

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