Posted by Arny Krueger on 01/03/08 18:53

"Bill Vermillion" <bv@wjv.com> wrote in message
news:Ju2nwn.r45@wjv.com


> Actually LP sales have been going up for the past couple
> of years.

Actually, they've started heading down again, at least according to the
RIAA:

year sales (million units)
1997 0.7
1998 0.7
1999 0.5
2000 0.5
2001 0.6
2002 0.7
2003 0.5
2004 0.9
2005 0.7
2006 0.6

preliminary report for 2007 says that LPs continue to decline.

> And now you will see such things as USB conectible
> turntables on sale at places diverse as Costco.

Seems like they are being sold as tools for archiving old LPs to CD-R.

> It's a niche market, but there is a market for vinyl out
> there - and so many of the new LPs are pressed on heavy
> vinyl - the kind that was used in the 1960s' before the
> thin, lightweight, and easily warpable vinyl of the '70s
> came in during the oil shortage of that era.

Suggesting that LP sound quality was falling long before the CD came on the
scene

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