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Vinyl record sales continue to rise amid music streaming’s dominance

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Scobie:
Yeah having the album cover in your hands, reading the notes, absorning the images while listening was absolutely part of the experience. I remember getting about 6 Beatles LPs one Christmas decades ago and poured over every inch of the sleeves. Even now when I hear one of the tracks I am transported to the album cover.

syndromeofadown:
Most of my coworkers are into vinyl. They are all bit hipster doofusy. I have given them hundreds of vinyl albums.

At the dumps here there are free stores. In the past they were unmanned dumps, so there was no staff to steal anything good. I got boxes upon boxes of records. Mostly Rock and Metal, some country. I also have quite a few records that came with deluxe versions of albums I purchased. I haven't played a record more than a couple times. I actually gave away my phono preamp too.

I have no problem with vinyl, except for the price. Anything over 30 dollars CAD is nuts. I see a lot of records for 80 dollars or more.

My coworkers say that vinyl sounds better. Most of them have 100 to 150 dollar turntables with build in phono amp, but they use bluetooth. They sent it to 100 dollar bluetooth speakers, or use 100 dollar headphones. So they have an analog record made from a digital master, converted to digital bluetooth, then output as analog through speakers.

I get the dynamic range argument for old recordings, but the typical situation I feel they are just adding clicks and pops. Or increasing their hipster cred.

What's wrong with them you ask? They grew up right after CD's died so all they have known is digital. But they all used youtube for music. I believe there was a thing with youtube rippers to get audio. The quality of this music is as bad as it gets, so maybe vinyl does sound better.

They seem happy, so who am i to rain on their parade. An interesting thing I noticed with my very young coworkers is that they do not own or know how to use a computer (our jobs require heavy use of computers). They can do gaming and they can figure out how to listen to music on youtube through their headphones of questionable quality.

Older people I know that would have grown up with vinyl have no interest in it. The one exception is if they want to play an existing collection, but with an existing collection comes an existing turntable. I do not know any older people buying vinyl.

I see SMSL and FIIO are releasing cassette players, and CD players. The cassette thing I find very strange. The CD player thing I suppose I understand. They are not too expensive. Just pointless. But you can't rip a disc with a phone.

There seems to be a return to physical media since streaming sucks now. I welcome this. If the hipsters acquire a taste for CDs, DVD, or bluray I will be a rich man. The return to physical should be good for business because sooner or later people will rip their collection.

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