The Vinylizer
"Harry Lavo" wrote in message
I haven't heard anybody in years argue that it is
anything but a niche market, Dick, and certainly not
Audio Empire.
I just showed again that while nobody who knows what's going on can argue
that vinyl is anything but a niche market, we see plenty of examples of
where its advocates can't just leave it at that. We still get all this
rah-rah about how many manufacturers there are, and how many dozens of new
releases of media there are.
Nobody knows how big the entire digital music market is since so much
product bypasses the channels that RIAA monitors. It still takes a pressing
plant to make LPs, while anybody who can upload to UTube can move 100,000s
of copies of their latest hit in a few days after playing the music in their
bedroom.
What he has argued, and I and others as
well, is that it is a growing market, and not just a DJ
market.
Nobody who knows whats going on says that LP is just a DJ market, but even
the DJ segment is suffering at the hands of digital hardware and software
that simulates scratching. The DJ maket is about quick setup and takedown,
so hauling 100's of LPs is very counter-productive.
The numerical growth of late has been in ca. $100 USB-based LP players. They
are plastic novelty items. Their sound quality is generally substandard,
even for vinyl. Frankly, many of them damage or destroy precious legacy
media with as little as one playing.
|