Vinyl
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https://www.riaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2022-Year-End-Music-Industry-Revenue-Report.pdf
Revenues from physical music formats continued to grow after their remarkable resurgence in 2021. Total physical revenues of $1.7 billion were up 4% versus the prior year. Revenues from vinyl records grew 17% to $1.2 billion – the sixteenth consecutive year of growth – and accounted for 71% of physical format revenues. For the first time since 1987, vinyl albums outsold CDs in units (41 million vs 33 million). After a 2021 rebound versus the Covid impacted 2020, revenues from CDs fell 18% to $483 million in 2022.
What's interesting is that not that vinyl has gained a lot o popularity, but that the revenue from CD's have fallen:
Ringtones are still a thing? Who knew....
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https://www.riaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2022-Year-End-Music-Industry-Revenue-Report.pdf
Revenues from physical music formats continued to grow after their remarkable resurgence in 2021. Total physical revenues of $1.7 billion were up 4% versus the prior year. Revenues from vinyl records grew 17% to $1.2 billion – the sixteenth consecutive year of growth – and accounted for 71% of physical format revenues. For the first time since 1987, vinyl albums outsold CDs in units (41 million vs 33 million). After a 2021 rebound versus the Covid impacted 2020, revenues from CDs fell 18% to $483 million in 2022.
What's interesting is that not that vinyl has gained a lot o popularity, but that the revenue from CD's have fallen:
Ringtones are still a thing? Who knew....
What's interesting is that not that vinyl has gained a lot o popularity, but that the revenue from CD's have fallen:
I was probably one of the last hold-outs who insisted on buying a physical copy, much to my family's amusement, but in the last couple of years I've gone over to buying digitally and/or streaming. I just replaced my nasty old stereo receiver with one that does Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for this very reason.
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I have a vinyl LP enroute from Great Britain as I type this.
Selling my current turntables to upgrade to a new one that's made in Delavan, WI, about 20 minutes from here.
In listen to at least 1 album every day. I just sit there and listen. No phone or anything. Just listen.
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I have a vinyl LP enroute from Great Britain as I type this.
Selling my current turntables to upgrade to a new one that's made in Delavan, WI, about 20 minutes from here.
In listen to at least 1 album every day. I just sit there and listen. No phone or anything. Just listen.
In listen to at least 1 album every day. I just sit there and listen. No phone or anything. Just listen.
How great is that? I mentioned before that many years ago I wanted to get a record player after hearing the quality of audio… haven’t done it yet, but expect to the next year or two. Very much interested in the value of being disconnected and just listening to albums via vinyl one day just like you.
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Vinyl is just better in nearly every way. Except maybe the sound.
- Vinyl requires you to get out of your house and go to a record store. Invariably once you're there, you're going to spend time with and around other music nerds. You're going to see what they're looking at and vice versa. Holy shit you might even talk to someone. Total time spent with others not in your family has been going down in recent years, inversely to depression, loneliness, and isolation. So at the risk of defending common sense, yeah, getting your ass off the couch and into a record store is better for you than choosing a Spotify playlist.
- It's physical. Tactile processing is important to mental health, too. It's just simply more damn fun fingering through a box of records than scrolling through songs on your phone.
- Vinyl means peak album art. It looks awesome and the ink has a smell to it. Looking through a record is a much more satisfying experience than tapping on a song.
- You can't scroll through TikTok on your turntable. Vinyl pretty much forces you to be more deliberate about what you're listening to.
- Buying vinyl makes you an active participant in the music ecosystem. You're supporting the bands you like far more directly than you ever can hearting their bullshit on the socials.
I really don't give a fig about the sound quality argument, vinyl's shitloads better anyway.
Please love yourself.
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Vinyl is just better in nearly every way. Except maybe the sound.
- Vinyl requires you to get out of your house and go to a record store. Invariably once you're there, you're going to spend time with and around other music nerds. You're going to see what they're looking at and vice versa. Holy shit you might even talk to someone. Total time spent with others not in your family has been going down in recent years, inversely to depression, loneliness, and isolation. So at the risk of defending common sense, yeah, getting your ass off the couch and into a record store is better for you than choosing a Spotify playlist.
- It's physical. Tactile processing is important to mental health, too. It's just simply more damn fun fingering through a box of records than scrolling through songs on your phone.
- Vinyl means peak album art. It looks awesome and the ink has a smell to it. Looking through a record is a much more satisfying experience than tapping on a song.
- You can't scroll through TikTok on your turntable. Vinyl pretty much forces you to be more deliberate about what you're listening to.
- Buying vinyl makes you an active participant in the music ecosystem. You're supporting the bands you like far more directly than you ever can hearting their bullshit on the socials.
I really don't give a fig about the sound quality argument, vinyl's shitloads better anyway.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Vinyl:
Vinyl is just better in nearly every way. Except maybe the sound.
- Vinyl requires you to get out of your house and go to a record store. Invariably once you're there, you're going to spend time with and around other music nerds. You're going to see what they're looking at and vice versa. Holy shit you might even talk to someone. Total time spent with others not in your family has been going down in recent years, inversely to depression, loneliness, and isolation. So at the risk of defending common sense, yeah, getting your ass off the couch and into a record store is better for you than choosing a Spotify playlist.
- It's physical. Tactile processing is important to mental health, too. It's just simply more damn fun fingering through a box of records than scrolling through songs on your phone.
- Vinyl means peak album art. It looks awesome and the ink has a smell to it. Looking through a record is a much more satisfying experience than tapping on a song.
- You can't scroll through TikTok on your turntable. Vinyl pretty much forces you to be more deliberate about what you're listening to.
- Buying vinyl makes you an active participant in the music ecosystem. You're supporting the bands you like far more directly than you ever can hearting their bullshit on the socials.
I really don't give a fig about the sound quality argument, vinyl's shitloads better anyway.
Looks like a good argument for buying vinyl, but using a digital version for listening purposes.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Vinyl:
Vinyl is just better in nearly every way. Except maybe the sound.
- Vinyl requires you to get out of your house and go to a record store. Invariably once you're there, you're going to spend time with and around other music nerds. You're going to see what they're looking at and vice versa. Holy shit you might even talk to someone. Total time spent with others not in your family has been going down in recent years, inversely to depression, loneliness, and isolation. So at the risk of defending common sense, yeah, getting your ass off the couch and into a record store is better for you than choosing a Spotify playlist.
- It's physical. Tactile processing is important to mental health, too. It's just simply more damn fun fingering through a box of records than scrolling through songs on your phone.
- Vinyl means peak album art. It looks awesome and the ink has a smell to it. Looking through a record is a much more satisfying experience than tapping on a song.
- You can't scroll through TikTok on your turntable. Vinyl pretty much forces you to be more deliberate about what you're listening to.
- Buying vinyl makes you an active participant in the music ecosystem. You're supporting the bands you like far more directly than you ever can hearting their bullshit on the socials.
I really don't give a fig about the sound quality argument, vinyl's shitloads better anyway.
Looks like a good argument for buying vinyl, but using a digital version for listening purposes.
Looks like a good argument for buying vinyl, but using a digital version for listening purposes.
Maybe, but I think using analog stuff in general is better for you; I do think the hipsters were on to something. We're supposed to move around in physical space and empirically interact with reality. Phones are convenient and make us more productive, but they're also kinda bad for us.
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Vinyl is just better in nearly every way. Except maybe the sound.
- Vinyl requires you to get out of your house and go to a record store. Invariably once you're there, you're going to spend time with and around other music nerds. You're going to see what they're looking at and vice versa. Holy shit you might even talk to someone. Total time spent with others not in your family has been going down in recent years, inversely to depression, loneliness, and isolation. So at the risk of defending common sense, yeah, getting your ass off the couch and into a record store is better for you than choosing a Spotify playlist.
- It's physical. Tactile processing is important to mental health, too. It's just simply more damn fun fingering through a box of records than scrolling through songs on your phone.
- Vinyl means peak album art. It looks awesome and the ink has a smell to it. Looking through a record is a much more satisfying experience than tapping on a song.
- You can't scroll through TikTok on your turntable. Vinyl pretty much forces you to be more deliberate about what you're listening to.
- Buying vinyl makes you an active participant in the music ecosystem. You're supporting the bands you like far more directly than you ever can hearting their bullshit on the socials.
I really don't give a fig about the sound quality argument, vinyl's shitloads better anyway.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Vinyl:
…Holy shit you might even talk to someone. Total time spent with others not in your family has been going down in recent years, inversely to depression, loneliness, and isolation. So at the risk of defending common sense, yeah, getting your ass off the couch and into a record store is better for you than choosing a Spotify playlist.
Great overall post, especially this part. I’m not sure if it has always been this way..: but it seems lately out in public it is increasingly awkward to talk with random people. Such as at the airport. Eye contact? GMAFB
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Vinyl:
…Holy shit you might even talk to someone. Total time spent with others not in your family has been going down in recent years, inversely to depression, loneliness, and isolation. So at the risk of defending common sense, yeah, getting your ass off the couch and into a record store is better for you than choosing a Spotify playlist.
Great overall post, especially this part. I’m not sure if it has always been this way..: but it seems lately out in public it is increasingly awkward to talk with random people. Such as at the airport. Eye contact? GMAFB
@Aqua-Letifer said in Vinyl:
…Holy shit you might even talk to someone. Total time spent with others not in your family has been going down in recent years, inversely to depression, loneliness, and isolation. So at the risk of defending common sense, yeah, getting your ass off the couch and into a record store is better for you than choosing a Spotify playlist.
Great overall post, especially this part. I’m not sure if it has always been this way..: but it seems lately out in public it is increasingly awkward to talk with random people. Such as at the airport. Eye contact? GMAFB
It's been that way forever in prison.
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Even with the very rare, tick or pop, listening to my original pressing of Miles Davis, Kind of Blue from 1959, brings a certain pleasure you just cannot get from even a recent and more pristine copy. I have three vinyl versions including a 90s remix that I gave to my daughter, and the Mobile Fidelity Labs 45rpm Original Master Recording. I also have it on CD of course.
Knowing that the record on the turntable is 64 years old and sounds that good, is something else.
Some of the Deutsche Grammophon pressings of classical music I have sound so good, and they are from the 1960s and 70s. They are absolute bargains on the used market. Brand new still shrink wrapped box sets of 9+ albums only cost $10-$20. If they are not brand new they usually have very little if any play time on them.
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I have a vinyl LP enroute from Great Britain as I type this.
Selling my current turntables to upgrade to a new one that's made in Delavan, WI, about 20 minutes from here.
In listen to at least 1 album every day. I just sit there and listen. No phone or anything. Just listen.
Selling my current turntables to upgrade to a new one that's made in Delavan, WI, about 20 minutes from here.
Here's another one you could get.
The entire turntable has been machined from a single block of aluminium and includes only two output jacks on the side of the enclosure; power comes from a USB Type-C 5 V connector and the internal phono pre-amp is connected to a 3.5mm output (which can be used as a headphone jack or 3.5mm to RCA output).
If you’re still looking for the tonearm and cartridge — give it up.
There is no tonearm to adjust, no complex settings—just place the vinyl upside down, press Play, and the 0.4 x 0.7 mil elliptical diamond stylus does the rest. Waiting for Ideas does not specify if the PP-1 utilizes a MM or MC cartridge, but it’s mounted upside down to read the grooves.
The other rather interesting feature is the self-learning closed-loop speed control, that figures out if you are playing a 33.3 or 45 rpm record.
Only USD$6000
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Anybody who really valued their vinyl collection would surely invest in a laser-turntable, which reads the disk without contacting it.
And for $11,0000, you get CD quality transfer of data, at only 30 times the price of a decent CD player!
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This is fascinating. Hit the arrow to start the animation.
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@taiwan_girl said in Vinyl:
Ringtones had their brief moment in the sun, lol.
that's right. 555. Kind of forgot that I dont hear those very much at all anymore.
I have a ringtone of the pocket watch chimes from the spaghetti western For a Few Dollars More. Have used it going on 18 years. Very few people recognise what it is or the story behind it.
