Vinyl Record Sales hit 18 year high!

Hum, this is good news.

But idea why this re-birth of LP's? Is CD's and FLAC's are not up to the mark of the Lp's or People going back to the Music Era Before 80's? which are available in LP only for best quality?
 
Hum, this is good news.

But idea why this re-birth of LP's? Is CD's and FLAC's are not up to the mark of the Lp's or People going back to the Music Era Before 80's? which are available in LP only for best quality?

Definitely....LP sound quality is best moreover very natural too as compare to other formats. But this is my personal opinion
 
I started with a 5.1 avr then to stereo with a normal CDP then to stereo with a decent naim rig with one of the better ( arguably ) CDP's - Naim CD5XS and then added a vintage belt drive Technics SL23 + Denon DL103 and Lehmann Audio phono.

I find myself increasing my vinyl collection at the expense of my CD collection. I have now many albums in BOTH CD's ( many imported ) and vinyl. I do not mean to brag but imported CD's have slightly better quality of sound on them yet....... my vinyl collection has grown significantly.

I may not be a representative sample of the market and the Naim CDP is by no means bad but there is something about a good pressing on vinyl that draws you in.....

Time for music on a per day basis remains the same so if it is 50:50 CDP to TT now i know i must brace for 65 : 35 soon in favor of vinyl and use the CDP only on those CD's where vinyl is too expensive for my pocket.

I think folks are discovering the magic again.

mpw
 
This is indeed a good sign.In my personal opinion I think if any company comes forward to manufacture vinyl records in our country I am sure there will be a niche market for these products.

Thanking you,

pksnathan
 
My reasons are all specified above.

I am yet to play my OB speakers with records. I feel openness of OB speakers accentuate emotional connections of sounds from records.
 
I think the record labels are now slowly realizing that the only way to make people buy physical media, is to release something that would be worth owning. And to me (and I'm sure a lot of others feel the same way) the only physical format worth owning and treasuring, is a vinyl record. CDs and tapes don't do it for me..Of course sound quality is another reason..But if I have to pick ONE reason for this resurgence..I'd say it's the former.

It's nice to see this change in mentality of people (especially young people)..even though it's still a niche thing..
 
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It's nice to see this change in mentality of people (especially young people)..even though it's still a niche thing..
DJ7KyF
 
I do not mean to brag but imported CD's have slightly better quality of sound on them yet....... my vinyl collection has grown significantly.

In CDs, as in Vinyl, Quality of pressing has a pretty big impact on the sound quality, and the quality of pressing depends most on the Master as well as the equipment used to mass create/mould
CD recordings have a very interesting process with the first being a "Glass Father" that is made from master tapes then a Metal Mother (4 made from a father as -ve images) and then the subsequent "Sons" are moulded using the mother as a cast which are what we buy
The quality of the Father is very important..and the quality of the Mother deteriorates from 1 to 4 and finally the Sons quality depends on if it is from the first mother or the subsequent ones

Most recordings in the US (EMI/Warner etc) have very good moulding machines and own the master hence better quality. I have found UK and German pressings also to be very good.

Japanese pressings are the best but very often dont have very good Masters..hence need to be careful on which Japanese pressings you buy..
 
Its good to hear that, but now days digital source is used for vinyl master instead of analog tape masters as a source.I find the warmth missing from new vinyls
 
Its good to hear that, but now days digital source is used for vinyl master instead of analog tape masters as a source.I find the warmth missing from new vinyls

My friend, if you check some information sources, you will find that all sources have been digital from as early as mid 70s. Studios stopped using tapes then.

Cheers
 
The first major label LP release based on an all-digital mix was Ry Cooder's 'Bop till you drop' from 1979, and it sounds terribly brittle because of the primitive implementation of digital technology at the time. It took some time for recording engineers to come to grips with this new stuff, which is why most studios continued to record on analog tapes right through the 80s, or made two sets of recordings, one analog and one digital, for the LP and CD release. Since the late 80s, most recordings have been all digital, and so the LPs released since then come from digital masters, as also many reissues of pre-80s material. The exceptions are those that specifically mention ' mastered from the original master tapes' like the recent Beatles Mono box set, or many of the Acoustic Sounds and Analogue Productions reissues. Some boutique labels even today release LPs that have an all-analog recording and mastering chain.
 
Audio_Freek said:
But idea why this re-birth of LP's?
Because they think they can fool people into thinking ANALOGUE IS BACK!!! (These new records are digital garbage (The digital master on the record) -- NO BETTER THAN A CD (99% of them anyway))
 
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