Good comments. But it's funny. Just yesterday I was listening to a superb
SACD on my relatively new Oppo BDP-105 SACD player (which has been
described by a very knowledgeable source as the best CD player ever made,
when it was new), and thinking to myself "There is no vinyl record ever
made that could touch this."
Best, John
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Disclosure: I supplied Mike Fremer my list of vinyl pressing plants, which
> included a couple he didn't have. I agree with his analysis, completely. I
> don't think Soundscan captures what Acoustic Sounds and Music Direct sell.
> It may capture Amazon's vinyl sales. I'm also not sure Soundscan captures
> sales in those hearty few independent record stores out there. Based on
> what I know about vinyl sales of Mercury Living Presence products, the vast
> majority are sold in the US, Japan and Germany, with a few sales in the UK.
> I don't assume this is the case for all titles because musical tastes vary
> by country. But I think it's safe to say that the majority of newly-pressed
> vinyl records are sold in those three markets.
>
> I especially agree with Mike's analysis about Crosley record-wreckers.
> These things aren't as lethal to a record as an old Garrard changer, but
> they aren't good for $30-60 platters. Also, I think all vinyl pressing
> plants should include an insert inside the record sleeves about proper care
> and cleaning. These are not commodity products like 1960s mainstream $3-5
> records. These are investments, you could say they are art for the masses
> because of the artifact/ritual aspects combined with music enjoyment and
> listening. There should be some kind of alliance in the record-pressing
> business that comes up with working for such an insert and makes it
> standard. To be fair to the big record companies of yore, inner sleeves for
> years carried advice about proper handling, cleaning and advice to always
> use clean, sharp needles.
>
> I don't know this for a fact, but if you were to somehow amalgamate hi-rez
> downloads to make it apples-to-apples against full-album LP records, I
> think LPs are outselling hi-rez downloads at the current time. I do think
> it's a safe bet that they are outselling SACD/DVD-A products.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
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