[Harry Lavo]

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Harry Lavo" wrote in message


"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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snip opinion to get to factual basis

One irony is that not too long ago, Vinyl was more like
1% of the total market. Now its 0.37%. Where I come
from, that's a 63% loss of market share.

Even though the actual numbers of product sold go up,
the market share appears to be continuing to all off a
cliff.

Uh, Arny....CD and total market sales are falling; LP
sales are rising. You don't have to be a genius at math
to know that means that LP's share is increasing.

Harry, you haven't dealt with the fact that Vinyl's market share was far
more, about 3 times more just a few years ago. OK, maybe the sales of
vinyl
went up in the past statistical period, compared to the previous one. That
doesn't make it a meaningful trend.

Back a couple-3-4 years back when vinyl's market share was around 1% I
suggested that it might due to media being sold to dance clubs and DJs for
scratching. Interestingly enough, a digital alternative to mechanical
scratching was developed, and now vinyl's market share is more like 0.37%.

Hmmmm.

Hmmm, please read Scotts post corraborating the rise in vinyl sales over
this decade. You are getting yourself further and further out on a bias
limb. The main vinyl aversion around here seems to be yours.

That begs the question of why vinyl's sales went up just lately. The most
recent relevant technological advance was the under-$200 USB turntable.
Think that might be it - people picking up some new media to see what
their
newly-hyped cheap LP playback hardware actually sounds like?

Don't be rediculous....people without vinyl don't buy a turntable (even a
cheap one) and THEN buy something to play on it, if they don't have
intention to use it. No the cheap turntables are for older folks like you
and I who are not into quality sound particularly, and just want something
to get their vinyl onto a computer as you've been urging them to do. The
kids are buying direct-drives and lower end belt drives in order to play
their vinyl. They might copy it onto a cd for the car or an iPod for
personal use, but they often play the vinyl at home.

And you are completely overlooking the substantial sales of
medium-to-higher-priced turntables and sales of $25-35 per disk premium
vinyl that is selling to reasonably well-heeled audio enthusiasts.