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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Record stores are back... There's half a dozen in Calgary and there are records even in drug stores.
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Boutique record shops are not carrying many CDs anymore.
The demand for vinyl seems to be a hipster fad, not based on any objective improvement in sound quality. Why pay $40 for a record?
Neil Young says the rise in vinyl sales is a fad - is he right?
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/...04-135l4x.html
So why is it being bought? There's a market of older buyers who still have affection for the form and the equipment to play it on. There's a younger market who have seen their favourite artists release vinyl versions and buy it to be completists or to share in the experience. And there's some who insist vinyl sounds better.
Are they right? As reported in the LA Weekly recently, an "objective" study casts doubt on many of the claims of vinyl superiority. In a solid examination of some of the issues too long to go into here, one argument was that "of vinyl's inherent deficiencies, reproducing bass is one of its most glaring. The other is that the last track on each side of a record sounds worse than the first, due to the fact that the player's stylus covers fewer inches of grooves per second as it gets closer to the centre."