Vinyl Album Sales Jump 108% in First 6 Months of 2021
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#2I had a lot of album's in the 70's so I get the appeal - to have a 12 by 12" object to hold with artwork and liner notes to look at. It adds another dimension that digital audio lacks. You can't touch, feel and smell a web page that has the same material, nor see them all on the shelf to admire.
My question is, do people actually listen to the vinyl tracks or do they listen to the much higher quality digital file while holding the album?
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#3Part of me is baffled by the (based-on-my-experience) tremendous overlap of people who purport to be environmental conscious yet also buy loads of vinyl. As noted by The Guardian digital media is not much better though.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/28/vinyl-record-r...
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#4I had a lot of album's in the 70's so I get the appeal - to have a 12 by 12" object to hold with artwork and liner notes to look at. It adds another dimension that digital audio lacks. You can't touch, feel and smell a web page that has the same material, nor see them all on the shelf to admire. My question is, do people actually listen to the vinyl tracks or do they listen to the much higher quality digital file whi…
I didn't think digital files have higher quality than vinyl. Do they?
Re: Vinyl Album Sales Jump 108% in First 6 Months of 2021
#5I had a lot of album's in the 70's so I get the appeal - to have a 12 by 12" object to hold with artwork and liner notes to look at. It adds another dimension that digital audio lacks. You can't touch, feel and smell a web page that has the same material, nor see them all on the shelf to admire. My question is, do people actually listen to the vinyl tracks or do they listen to the much higher quality digital file whi…
That’s a really interesting question! Anecdata n=1, I buy vinyl and spin it! I do it a lot more with working from home. (I use an iPod classic otherwise.)
It didn’t even occur to me that people would buy vinyl and not actually use it until an artist I like finally restocked their discography on vinyl and fellow fans on reddit said they don’t (and won’t) own turntables but were excited to buy the records anyway. The records don’t offer anything over the CDs (same booklets, etc) except their physical size. Kinda frustrating having to compete for limited copies with people who don’t even own turntables. Wish they’d reprint, there’s clearly demand.
Lorde’s newest album is released on vinyl, but not CD (to reduce waste, I believe?) To cover off the ‘see them on the shelf’ aspect of CDs, they’ve made a ‘music box’ that’s printed with the album art and has all the stuff you’d get in the CD case except the CD and gives a download code instead. I thought that was an interesting way to sell something to fans in the age of streaming.
Anecdata aside, this is a really interesting question and I’d be really curious for some data. I’m curious for how well Lorde’s thing sells, too.
Re: Vinyl Album Sales Jump 108% in First 6 Months of 2021
#6I had a lot of album's in the 70's so I get the appeal - to have a 12 by 12" object to hold with artwork and liner notes to look at. It adds another dimension that digital audio lacks. You can't touch, feel and smell a web page that has the same material, nor see them all on the shelf to admire. My question is, do people actually listen to the vinyl tracks or do they listen to the much higher quality digital file whi…
I didn't think digital files have higher quality than vinyl. Do they?
The vinyl owned by me had scratches and pops because I'd buy many used
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#7I had a lot of album's in the 70's so I get the appeal - to have a 12 by 12" object to hold with artwork and liner notes to look at. It adds another dimension that digital audio lacks. You can't touch, feel and smell a web page that has the same material, nor see them all on the shelf to admire. My question is, do people actually listen to the vinyl tracks or do they listen to the much higher quality digital file whi…
That’s a really interesting question! Anecdata n=1, I buy vinyl and spin it! I do it a lot more with working from home. (I use an iPod classic otherwise.) It didn’t even occur to me that people would buy vinyl and not actually use it until an artist I like finally restocked their discography on vinyl and fellow fans on reddit said they don’t (and won’t) own turntables but were excited to buy the records anyway. The r…
I remember a lot of people wanting to keep the album in pristine condition, so I bet those types are not spinning them. Spinning used to have surprises, like you'd fall asleep to an album and the artists would know this, so they put a bunch of blank time at the end followed by a burst of music to wake you up.
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#8Part of me is baffled by the (based-on-my-experience) tremendous overlap of people who purport to be environmental conscious yet also buy loads of vinyl. As noted by The Guardian digital media is not much better though. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/28/vinyl-record-r...
Liking [thing] and also believing that [thing] should be improved in some manner aren't contradictory positions.
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#9I don't think it's a good thing buying a vinyl turntable nowadays. There is a current hype with vinyl, but I am not sure it will last. Many people say that vinyl has a superior sound, but this is mainly because a good turntable adds some bass to the sound (And sometimes treble), compensating the lack of bass of bad loudspeakers, but with real good loudspeakers, CD usually sounds better
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#10I had a lot of album's in the 70's so I get the appeal - to have a 12 by 12" object to hold with artwork and liner notes to look at. It adds another dimension that digital audio lacks. You can't touch, feel and smell a web page that has the same material, nor see them all on the shelf to admire. My question is, do people actually listen to the vinyl tracks or do they listen to the much higher quality digital file whi…
I didn't think digital files have higher quality than vinyl. Do they?
Yes. (I say as someone who mainly listens to vinyl, because I own it.)
Intrinsic limitations of the medium mean that it's more or less impossible to get a signal to noise ratio of more than 75 dB, channel crosstalk under -45 dB, or THD+N under 0.1%, or a frequency response of about 30 Hz to 13 kHz plus or minus 1 dB
Even a mediocre CD player will do 80 dB, -70 dB, 0.01%, and 20 Hz - 20 kHz plus or minus 0.5 dB respectively. Most of them are better than those numbers.
And once you get to or above 192 kSa/s MP3, let alone more modern CODECs, you can do better still.
Can you hear the difference? Absolutely. Many people prefer vinyl because it sounds "warmer", or because the hiss and crackle bring on (movie-induced?) nostalgia for their childhoods.