Vinyl keeps surging

F1nut

At least 1 percent last time I checked.

TroyD

I think digital is fantastic. I love digital. I love SACD. If it were also a case of what's most popular is best, we'd all be listening to Bose, I would imagine. So, yeah, of new music sales, vinyl isn't even a blip on the radar. However, in terms of consumers of electronic goods, audiophiles (to include the digital folks) are similarly a blip on the radar. So does that mean that we are irrelevant? Again, it all depends on your perspective. We aren't mass market types. However, even the digital folks have to realize that stronger vinyl sales is a good thing for ALL audiophiles.

It's funny, Cathy, to me it sounded like you were the one with the lesser than tolerant attitude. Live and let live, I say. I enjoy digital as much as anyone. The only thing that I'm saying is that with your setup, you lack the credibility to make an empirical judgement about vinyl. If it's not for you, fantastic, but it doesn't diminish the fact that a lot of people are buying and enjoying vinyl in increasing numbers and have been for a couple of years. Nostalgia will fuel some of that but I don't think that it's primarily nostalgia. For a modest investment (though still not cheap) you can get very good vinyl playback capability. With the upshot of an almost limitless supply of truly amazing material on LP available on the used market very cheap.

BDT

engtaz

I love SACD's. They are fantastics but speaking sound wise LP's have a better all around sound.

engtaz

engtaz

I love SACD's. They are fantastics but speaking sound wise LP's have a better all around sound.

engtaz

doctor r

The fact that some music was never transfered to a digital medium leaves me enjoying vinyl on a daily basis. Adding a quality tube buffered CD to my system though certainly made it more apparent that there was very nice quality in redbook CDs that I had been missing for years. CDs have the information it is just how that impformation is processed prior to reaching our speakers that make a huge difference. You can actually aquire a reasonbly priced entry level table with a decent cartrideg and have a vinyl setup that achieves very nice fidelity but have to dig a little deeper to match that same level with many CDPs on the market. Both mediums offer what we are each looking for. Both offer things we don't want. I do enjoy listening to an entire album because they were engineered and designed to go together as a whole, not to be picketed apart by remote skipping to the third or fifth title.

reeltrouble1

presently, More vinyl albums get sold than SACD.

In some way maybe vinyl can help SACD, at least they are now both (at least in theory)about recording quality not quantity.

A good idea rarely goes away. Vinyl seems to meet the criteria, SACD is hanging in there.

RT1

madmax

There is nothing wrong with collecting the shiny disc. They work great in an office rig or garage.
madmax

Erik Tracy

The San Diego Tribune JUST ran the article at the top of this thread in today's paper - it being, what, oh 11 days AFTER it first came out on the 9th.

But, that's the San Diego media - always behind the times and most often fluffed to the point of inaccuracy and inanity.

Erik

jbarbier

Ha, I'm just starting out in quality audio and I bought a TT before I even started thinking about CD players. Maybe it was the advice of older audio whizzes around here that planted the idea in my head, but I'm glad that they did. I spent $300 on a turntable, another hundred on a nice cart and put together a KILLER collection of vinyl for probably less than what I paid for the TT. I'm very much into jazz, and there are hundreds (if not thousands) of classic recordings that never made it to CD.

However, there are also recordings not available on vinyl (go figure,) that ARE available on CD, SACD, etc. For the most part, though, I'm still keen on vinyl because there are millions of used, hardly listened to, records available for next to nothing.

Danny Tse

Face wrote: »

What's SACD's market share?

More than 300 new titles this year. Anyone noticed that Reference Recordings just released its first SACD (however, not for the US market)?

Despite my support for SACD, I'm ready to fire up the good, old Technics turntable. Nothing wrong with support good sounding recordings, no matter what format they are on.