[Jenn]

In article ,
"Arny Krueger" wrote:

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I used to follow this ng religiously in 1997, but stopped
for ten years due to other interests. I am curious if the
status of vinyl/ analog has decreased or increased since
1997? There was a small renaiscance in the late 1990's
with several companys producing remastered vinyl discs.
Is this all dead or still alive?

Vinyl was pretty strong up until a few years ago, bouyed by an odd
combination of dance music DJs and sentimental audiophiles.

And people who really like how some of them sound.

Vinyl was
attractive to the DJs because it enabled scratching, a process that plays
LPs by means of hand movements instead of normal steady rotation and groove
tracking. Eventually, effective digital simulations of scratching became
popular, and the dance music market is now going away.

Vinyl media sales fell precipitously in the last half of 2006, and can be
expected to continue to drop.

As did and as can CD sales.