HI FOLKS !
GOOD NEWS ! 👍 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/29/vinyl-uk-sales-highest-market-share-since-1990
GOOD NEWS ! 👍 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/29/vinyl-uk-sales-highest-market-share-since-1990
The demand for vinyl is now outstripping supply.
Billboard has calculated that pressing plants around the globe have the capacity to manufacture 160 million albums a year, but to meet demand they'd have to make closer to 400 million.
There's little prospect of that happening as the start-up costs for a new pressing plant are prohibitive and the price of the raw materials to make vinyl is currently spiralling.
We vinyl freaks will continue to buy our 12" platters, but can look forward to waiting for months after the digital release and then pay through the nose for them.
(Information extracted from Hi-Fi Choice, January 2022.)
Billboard has calculated that pressing plants around the globe have the capacity to manufacture 160 million albums a year, but to meet demand they'd have to make closer to 400 million.
There's little prospect of that happening as the start-up costs for a new pressing plant are prohibitive and the price of the raw materials to make vinyl is currently spiralling.
We vinyl freaks will continue to buy our 12" platters, but can look forward to waiting for months after the digital release and then pay through the nose for them.
(Information extracted from Hi-Fi Choice, January 2022.)
Which, as recorded digitally, went through someone's DAC to get to the cutting head. Hope they got everything just so with the all the electronics hardware. Best of the best, or at least a good as what we build for ourselves, here - signal path wise.
I guess I fail to understand how that transfer to the vinyl medium would be so different than just playing it back from the original digital recording at home. Now if it was direct to disc, cut using all analog signal path, as the band performed, you get what you put down - I can see how that type of vinyl would sound...like great vinyl. I wouldnt expect that to be a particularly popular way to record these days!
All those fools (are you one of them?) that chose to toss their records for CD, (I hate that lousy modern term 'vinyl') that now desire to re-replace their records are at the mercy of modern-day offerings.
You bought into the "trendy" digital CD era media, the music industry continued to profit, and you paid.
And now you have to pay again.
Stable-minded as I am, I still have my record collections, so I'm way ahead of the ball game.
You bought into the "trendy" digital CD era media, the music industry continued to profit, and you paid.
And now you have to pay again.
Stable-minded as I am, I still have my record collections, so I'm way ahead of the ball game.
It is done sometimes. The record pressing plant in my hometown ( https://www.recordindustry.com/ ) opened a completely analogue studio a couple of years ago. They can record direct to disc or via tape, whatever the customer wants, see https://www.artone-studio.com/
The "Grauniad" is telling us nothing new. I didn't click on the link as I don't want to donate money to them, nor do I want them to put a boat-load of cookies on my laptop that I'll have to delete. As a paper they're pretty desperate.
Vinyl is still "en-vogue" with young people as is "mid century modern."
For we older consumers, vinyl has always been in. I didn't stop buying vinyl when CDs came in. I still buy both, but less frequently.
The article raises a couple of interesting points...
1) People are buying 1970s music on vinyl, not new music. (Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"....? Really?)
2) People are not buying music from before about 1968. The author claims older music doesn't sound well on contemporary playback gear.
3) He also claims that it's not about the sound, it's about the theatre of it.
It sounds like this has 'fad' written all over it. Nothing to base a career on, that's for sure...
But you know, I could be wrong. I often am.
1) People are buying 1970s music on vinyl, not new music. (Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"....? Really?)
2) People are not buying music from before about 1968. The author claims older music doesn't sound well on contemporary playback gear.
3) He also claims that it's not about the sound, it's about the theatre of it.
It sounds like this has 'fad' written all over it. Nothing to base a career on, that's for sure...
But you know, I could be wrong. I often am.
Because if you tried to put modern digital music directly to vinyl without mastering it specifically for vinyl, it would sound like garbage if it even played...
https://www.sageaudio.com/blog/mastering/what-is-mastering-for-vinyl.php
I'm not one of those 'vinyl freaks' mentioned in my earlier post, and have never bought modern pressings of my old LPs.
I did buy CD versions of some of my old LPs when they first appeared, only to find that the CD versions were inferior.
However, that was back in the early days of CD when digital recording equipment was inferior to that of today.
I never remotely considered getting rid of my old LPs, and I regularly enjoy the ritual (and splendid sound) of playing them.
I did buy CD versions of some of my old LPs when they first appeared, only to find that the CD versions were inferior.
However, that was back in the early days of CD when digital recording equipment was inferior to that of today.
I never remotely considered getting rid of my old LPs, and I regularly enjoy the ritual (and splendid sound) of playing them.
1) I guess all those tens of thousands of pressings of Adele's new album "30" are just going to sit on the shelves.😉
2) All the fancy audiophile jazz pressings seem to be selling quite well, even at eye watering prices for some. Mostly recorded well before 1968. Huh?
3) Theatre? Well, there could be dancing.🙂
jeff
If you want to talk about "eye watering prices"
In my teens in 1959, I was paying around £2 or more for jazz albums.
Work that one out, No, I'll tell you, it's £51.
In my teens in 1959, I was paying around £2 or more for jazz albums.
Work that one out, No, I'll tell you, it's £51.
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When a young teenager, 5 days of back-breaking strawberry picking earned me just enough to buy a Pye 'Golden Guinea' LP.
The budget price LP cost me, unsurprisingly, one guinea (21 shillings), and was similar to the one shown attached.
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I t depends where you look for your inflation calculator.
I used this one today.
https://www.hl.co.uk/tools/calculators/inflation-calculator
That'll give you £51.
So let's not get silly about it.