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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I agree that because of incredibly stupid decisions by record companies, CD sound quality isn't as good as it should be. By wanting to make the CD as 'loud' as possible, they are often causing nasty clipping and distortion.
Technical details of vinyl records prevent them from doing this, and it doesn't surprise me that in some instances the vinyl will have a better sound.
And apparently 2011 saw the strongest sales of vinyl since 1991, with about 250,000 vinyl albums sold in the UK.
Compared to 86 million CD albums and 26 million album downloads.
0.2% of the market is dead. It doesn't have to stop being produced to be dead as a mass format. There are still people who produce scrolls on parchment.
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I don't expect paper books to die as quickly as vinyl, but arguing that vinyl isn't dead, and so paper books won't die either, is a non-starter. |
In your music sales, vinyl would be the hardbacks bought by people who want the best quality, CD would be paperbacks bought by the mass market, and mp3 would be ebooks bought by people who value convenience more than anything else. So for all the physical items to die out, it would take a shift in thinking towards convenience becoming more important than all other considerations. That will take a generation.
The situation with books is somewhat different to music, because the publishers aren't really pushing them as much as the music publishers pushed CD (and later mp3) to get people to re-buy their collection. If anything, delayed ebook releases and pricing them at the same level as a real book will push back mainstream adoption.