"Audio Empire" wrote in message
You are the one that asserts that nobody listens to vinyl
any more. My assertion is based on the large number of
record decks, arms, cartridges and phono preamps
available in the marketplace today and the fact that new
ones are coming out all the time.
Availability does not necessarily equal sales. Without actual sales figures
your assertions have no meaning. Product announcements may be for products
that are vapor.
If nobody listens to
vinyl any more, there would be no market for these
devices, yet there obviously is.
The market size is at this time unknown for the reasons stated above.
People can't stay in
business if nobody is buying their products. That's basic
business economics.
Furthermore, were you to provide actual sales figures, we'd have to divide
that by another unknown, the size of the total audiophile market.
However I did talk to Sumiko (who imports Pro-Ject tables
and several cartridge lines) this AM, and their marketing
guy told me that Sumiko sold almost a half a million
turntable units in the USA and Canada alone in 2010.
Worldwide, he said that estimates are that vinyl is a 1.2
billion dollar business.
A salesman bragging does not make a reliable statistics.
According to CEDIA total 2010 home audio component sales were $3.78 billion.
Vinyl = 1/3 of all home audio component sales? I don't think so.
http://www.twice.com/article/463519-...rnaround.ph p
A niche, yes, but a big enough
pie that many companies can get a healthy slice of it.
And it means that the number of people who listen to
vinyl is hardly "nobody" and that those "nobodies" are
(currently, anyway) growing in number.
No reliable evidence about vinyl to be seen here yet, I fear.