Digg: The Resurgence Of Vinyl Records, Visualized.
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I assume that lots of sales go to resellers and to collectors taking a bet on an increase in value over the long term.
Interesting seeing how vinyl sales have skyrocketed. I tried finding a demographics breakdown of sales by age group, which would have put those numbers within some contextual light.
I would agree with you that a good portion of those sales are by resellers.
I acquaint it with the brisk trade in top flight sneakers that goes on here in NYC. Mostly younger folks and teenagers buying and selling in much the same spirit of commodities trading.
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My son and daughter are in their late 20s and they by albums quite often. They don’t have high end systems. My son has a Sprout with ELAC speakers and a Music Hall table. My daughter has a Technic table with KEF LSX speakers. My old pair.
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I just realized all four of my children purchase vinyl. They range from 24 to 39 in age.
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It looks like Bryston has decided to eliminate some of their supply chain issues. It’s going to be interesting to see where they head with this new equipment.
So very encouraging!
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That’s so encouraging. I hope that’s true across continents.
I’ve recently also recently noticed a good bit of Classical Jazz that I hadn’t really tuned into before.
This is one of my favorite examples. Anja Lechner is amazing here.
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I’ve gotten my violinist 25-yr old son hooked on hifi! He just bought a set of monitors for himself and here’s always used hi fi quality over the ear headphones. Guess the old man has rubbed off on him
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Magnepan subwoofers, mmm…
Maybe I am not a serious audiophile, but Tom Martin’s first 40 minutes of yammering made me want to eat a bullet. If I get kicked out of the club, so be it. I’ll turn in my membership card asap.
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I have to confess the first time I watched was late evening and I felt asleep within 10 minutes… the day after I was better prepared!
You are a better man than I can ever aspire to be. Congratulations. I cannot revisit the 7 Circles of Hell.
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I do not click on YouTube reviews/videos regardless of topic. Too many who live to hear themselves talk with nothing to say.
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I give the presenter the benefit of the doubt and just look at the length of the video. If it’s over 10 minutes, I pass. Under 5 is acceptable undermost circumstances…
In my working days before I became a gentleman* of leisure, my company posted a good number of “how-to” videos. Reviewing web data, site visitors wold start to click out after one minute. By the two minute mark, over 2/3 had tapped out.
(* debatable )
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Interesting data. Thanks.
Well, since then some “presenters” gotten quite professional with their production, so I don’t know what the current status might be, But even so, the video better grab the viewer’s attention hard in the first minute.
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The TAS video is interminably long, freakishly redundant and minimally informative. Hard to believe it was of someone with the word editor in their title. I could have trimmed it down to 5 minutes (it’s nearly an hour). It’s blown hard, like a Louis Armstrong recording, only without any musical enjoyment.
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