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Return of the Vinyl Album

Posted by kdawson on from the vinylly dept.

bulled writes "NPR ran a story this morning about the comeback of vinyl. It seems that sales of new vinyl records are up about 10%; sales will approach a million this year (as against half a billion for CDs). NPR mentioned the popularity of a turntable with a USB interface — they didn't specify the brand; could be this one, or this — and speculated on other possible reasons for the resurgence. They mentioned sound quality and lack of DRM as possible causes. Sound quality can and will be debated, but DRM rates a resounding 'Duh.'"

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  1. Re:Not surprising. by goombah99 · · Score: 4, Funny

    From a collector's stand point, vinyls never really faded from popularity. I still have all of my old vinyls and purchase new ones today by more current bands. That's so last year. I'm going to digital Vinyl, I take my Vinyl records, convert them to MP3 then send this out over a modem which I then record as analog audio on the vinyl record. This way I don't encounter the dynamic range limitations of the vinyl.
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  2. Re:So let me get this straight... by mblase · · Score: 4, Funny

    What am I missing?

    The brick wall, with your forehead. A little more damage to your frontal lobes will do wonders for your audiophile logic.

  3. Re:Digital Vinyl data capacity blows CDs out of wa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think we just witnessed the nerd version of a bar brawl...

  4. Re:Digital Vinyl DRM by Gilmoure · · Score: 4, Funny

    Didn't Squirt My Vinyl open for the Ramones in '78?

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