Big BIG News! For The First Time Since 1987, Record Sales Have Over Taken CDs!

[toobfreak]

And most of the sales are coming from young people rediscovering the benefits of vinyl and a physical music format again! Cool!

Vinyl records outsell CDs for the first time since 1987

Vinyl sales grew for the 16th consecutive year in 2022, with 41 million albums sold — compared to 33 million CDs. Streaming is still the biggest driver of the music industry's growth.

northcountrypublicradio.org

Crank out those masters and mothers!

Here are some great turntables you might play them on!

I own three of the above.

 

[jbrownson0831]

And most of the sales are coming from young people rediscovering the benefits of vinyl and a physical music format again! Cool!

Vinyl records outsell CDs for the first time since 1987

Vinyl sales grew for the 16th consecutive year in 2022, with 41 million albums sold — compared to 33 million CDs. Streaming is still the biggest driver of the music industry's growth.

northcountrypublicradio.org

Crank out those masters and mothers!

Here are some great turntables you might play them on!

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I own three of the above.

I owned a Denon long ago.....

 

[toobfreak]

I owned a Denon long ago.....

Denon made great stuff.

 

[excalibur]

Screw vinyl and all the hiccups it provides.

 

[Concerned American]

I owned a Denon long ago.....

I still have a Technics linear tracking quartz turntable--but the drive belt is shot. Saw one just now for on ebay for $5. Hmmm. Maybe time to pull the albums back out.

 

[toobfreak]

Screw vinyl and all the hiccups it provides.

RECORDS RULE FOREVER

 

[jbrownson0831]

I still have a Technics linear tracking quartz turntable--but the drive belt is shot. Saw one just now for on ebay for $5. Hmmm. Maybe time to pull the albums back out.

I have a couple of reel to reels...Pioneer RT909 and a Teac X1000R with some original recordings and tons of RtoR tapes. Got these in 80 and 82, no longer own a turntable but do have albums.
I have seen a bunch of record shops now where you can buy these albums that is great to see.

 

[jbrownson0831]

Screw vinyl and all the hiccups it provides.

Boo!

 

[toobfreak]

I still have a Technics linear tracking quartz turntable--but the drive belt is shot. Saw one just now for on ebay for $5. Hmmm. Maybe time to pull the albums back out.

I was never big on Panasonic audio gear but my buddy had the one with a smoky cover that sounded OK. Seriously, the best thing you can do for the sound of records is to buy a good pick up then most of all, get a really good phono stage preamp.

Most people have never heard how good records can really sound, how close to live because the vast majority of stereos out there came with crappy photo cartridges and even more hideous op amp preamp phono stages.

ITMT, I'd try replacing that drive belt.

 

[Concerned American]

I have a couple of reel to reels...Pioneer RT909 and a Teac XR1000 with some original recordings and tons of RtoR tapes. Got these in 80 and 82, no longer own a turntable but do have albums.
I have seen a bunch of record shops now where you can buy these albums that is great to see.

I brought an Akai RtoR/8track back from Vietnam, but it went somewhere years ago--can't remember what happened to it.

 

[toobfreak]

I have a couple of reel to reels...Pioneer RT909 and a Teac X1000R with some original recordings and tons of RtoR tapes. Got these in 80 and 82, no longer own a turntable but do have albums.
I have seen a bunch of record shops now where you can buy these albums that is great to see.

I still have an Ampex 910 portable studio deck. R to R had really great sound, its biggest liability just being the tape hiss, but you could subtract that out with a dbx dynamic noise suppressor.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I will never get why people find vinyl so fascinating. I only buy it when it is the only way to score whatever music it is that I am looking for. My last purchase was almost a year ago.

God bless you always!!!

Holly (a girl who will forever love the late beautiful precious masterpiece of a gentleman)

 

[jbrownson0831]

I brought an Akai RtoR/8track back from Vietnam, but it went somewhere years ago--can't remember what happened to it.

These machines are amazing but they require regular maintenance. If kept up they reproduce great sound. And the original recorded tapes from the factory played on these machines sound terrific.

 

[toobfreak]

I will never get why people find vinyl so fascinating.

Well, first of all, you have to really love music. I have an $8,000 CD player (adjusted for inflation) and my table rocks all over it. You won't get any closer to live sound than perhaps with a good Reel to Reel, but there was never much music available on that format.

 

[toobfreak]

And the original recorded tapes from the factory played on these machines sound terrific.

Sadly, the store bought music reels were recorded at a faster speed than playback to cut cost (time) in making them. If you recorded your own music on them, they sounded even better.

 

[Hellbilly]

Screw vinyl and all the hiccups it provides.

Vinyl sounds better.

 

[basquebromance]

not interested. i'd rather listen for free on spotify or youtube. i'm a spoiled brat like that. enjoy your vinyls grandpas lol

 

[toobfreak]

i'd rather listen for free on spotify or youtube.

Seriously. Do you really think streaming compressed digital on your ear buds or cellphone comes within a million miles to hearing orchestral or Led Zeppelin on a $200,000 music system in a dedicated, acoustically treated listening room?

 

[basquebromance]

Seriously. Do you really think streaming compressed digital on your ear buds or cellphone comes within a million miles to hearing orchestral or Led Zeppelin on a $200,000 music system in a dedicated, acoustically treated listening room?

i don't want to pay because i don't want to work

 

[toobfreak]

i don't want to pay because i don't want to work

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