Seeking a more "tangible" music experience, more millennials are buying vinyl records and driving U.S. production and sales not seen in decades.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/103146700
http://www.cnbc.com/id/103146700
Yes very similar here in the UK.
HMV have a large store where I live and earlier in the year started to stock more vinyl but initially around twenty titles. They now have a rack of about 20 feet in their store with at a guess 100 to 200 titles. All popular and rock at this stage.
I know some of these vinyl kids. They talk about being into the sound, but few have particularly good systems, even worse tables. I think what they're into is experiencing the music in a way they just can't when bouncing from artist to artist on a playlist into headphones. All they really needed to do was sit down, shut up, and listen to entire albums. Maybe jump over to allmusic.com on their phones and get some background on the artist that is usually much better than liner notes, as they listened. But if it took a shift to an old tech to get them there, fair enough. As long as they're really listening again.
Tim
I usually give mine away (the DD's that is).Do all these vinyl discs come with a digital download voucher by any chance? If they were really serious about eradicating this disgusting, nausea-inducing numerical filth from our lives, then the manufacturers and purchasers wouldn't be so half-hearted about it.
(* I actually love digital audio, but I am inferring the general sentiment from various forums and well-known audio pundits' writings).
Really Tim? Did you have something particularly good when starting off? I think they mean a "difference in sound" as compared to what they are used to.
I actually started with pretty decent stuff, but that's not the point. I know they hear a difference in sound. Heck, a lot of them were probably listening to earbuds or docking stations when the got into vinyl, so the change to vinyl was a complete change of experience. But I think it's mostly about the human experience. They slowed down, sat down, and listened. It's a powerful experience compared to constantly listening to iPods while multi-tasking.
Tim
Tim
Nice find on the article Ron. I witness the LP buying surge here in Spokane, WA and Northern Idaho. A couple NEW record stores have opened selling both new and used records. Often times, the customers are anywhere from 18 to 50 years old. I would guess the average customer is 30 years old.Seeking a more "tangible" music experience, more millennials are buying vinyl records and driving U.S. production and sales not seen in decades.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/103146700
I know some of these vinyl kids. They talk about being into the sound, but few have particularly good systems, even worse tables. I think what they're into is experiencing the music in a way they just can't when bouncing from artist to artist on a playlist into headphones. All they really needed to do was sit down, shut up, and listen to entire albums. Maybe jump over to allmusic.com on their phones and get some background on the artist that is usually much better than liner notes, as they listened. But if it took a shift to an old tech to get them there, fair enough. As long as they're really listening again.
Tim
Tim, yes, perhaps "all they really needed to do was sit down, shut up, and listen to entire albums." But they didn't. Perhaps, there is more to it and perhaps they think not particularly good systems and even worse tables sound better than their digital MP3s and ear buds.
... but for some reason or other got rid of most of it.
Edorr- i'm not a millenial, but I talk to an awful lot of people about records. And some younger folks 'get' it, they may not have the bread for it (some do and spend it on fi as well as cars), but build just as we did when we were younger and didn't have the cash. Decent table that won't destroy the records, some knowledge of older, good sounding copies, etc. Not everybody wearing a flannel shirt is a lumbersexual. And sometimes a craft beer is still just a beer.Folks. Millenials buying vinyl has nothing to do with sound quality. I saw a $199 record player with build in speakers right next to the vinyl collection at Barnes & Noble. Millenials don't have the kind of cash to build the system to get the better (according to some) performance of vinyl. If they do, they'll spend it on a car. They buy vinyl strictly a fashion / lifestyle statement.