Vinyl sales continue to grow

[davidc4430]

Vinyl sales continue to grow, but does music sound better on a record or digital streaming?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-01/vinyl-sales-increase-but-does-music-sound-better-on-record/11...

give me a break, go back to vinyl, not this little black duck

i remenber vinyl only too well

needing to buy a new copy because we had a hot day or it developed a skip

not being able to replace a record because 'its out of print'

nope, replaced everything and then some with CDs, still have em stored away.

transferred them all onto hard drive, made back ups.

play perfect every time, never wear out

still buy the odd CD, but not often

[rogespeed]

I just dusted off my turntable and playing a $1 opp shop sourced late 60's pop record . Sounds as clear and good to my ears as  very strong reception FM radio, so i am pleased 

The only irritation is changing sides of the disk every 15 minutes or so., but that can be easily resolved with legal copy to digital format media including editing time between tracks etc.  The added bonus being at the same time optimising qualities for personal preferences 

So I like vinyl records 

[mehhay56]

I 'm hopeful enough of the young people who discovered records lately will continue to support it. So far, it has survived tapes, CDs and digital downloads, which leaves me mind boggling. The challenge is to keep the revenue adequate to make it economically viable. To keep our old turntables running, we must at least be able to buy the stylus's and the parts needed. It will be awesome to continue to see new records being created too.

[4channel]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

Vinyl sales continue to grow, but does music sound better on a record or digital streaming?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-01/vinyl-sales-increase-but-does-music-sound-better-on-record/11...

give me a break, go back to vinyl, not this little black duck

i remenber vinyl only too well

needing to buy a new copy because we had a hot day or it developed a skip

not being able to replace a record because 'its out of print'

nope, replaced everything and then some with CDs, still have em stored away.

transferred them all onto hard drive, made back ups.

play perfect every time, never wear out

still buy the odd CD, but not often

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Vinyl sounds better than digital but you have to spend more to get that sound. Vinyl like magnetic tape being analogue will contain a capture of the sound recorded on it. Digital like CD and download have a numerical representation of the music. Some purists will say that with digital it misses parts of the music. I guess you'd have to have a trained ear for that. Digital is able to capture a broader dynamic range than vinyl so there's some compression involved there. So it wins there but it doesn't have the detail.

Anyway adherents to both will argue their point until the other one shuts up. At the end of the day which will be around in 500 years? That Lionel Ritchie  or Bonnie Raitt  album if dug up will still be playable if stored right. Possibly some of the new film that is used to store analogue and other data may survive. The CD will have oxidised and the digital data will have become corrupted over time by whatever outside influences are about.

[not_for_sale2025]

Nothing competes with vinyl IMO. I have heard some of the mono recordings of Beatles' albums on a high end record player. I heard things that cannot be reproduced any other way. The musicality is breathtaking. But of course you need the right equipment and have to set the stylus perfectly. When you get it right tho, it is sublime.

[mehhay56]

Holds the mark and looks great. It doesn't squeeze the jacket too tightly or anything, and has no trouble keeping all the sleeves. It's so quick to slip the jacket in open is winder. Difficult to beat for under 5 bucks.

The car decals at topvinylcutters gives me a greif for not making a message of 300 characters. She is a creator of a napkin. Difficult to extend ... Also pictured anyway is just what I happened to have when I decided to write.