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Is the Vinyl Revival well and growing?

I never gave up on vinyl. October 1988, I bought my LP12. We were being told CDs were perfect sound forever. People were dumping their vinyl. Thankfully, I cleaned the best that I could find. Now, TTs at all price points are coming on the market. Is the the vinyl revival real and where will we end up?

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Good post Bill (whart). Having begrudgingly lived through the dark days of the 1990’s, when the availability of new music on LP was effectively nill, for me the greatest benefit of the LP revival is the resurgence in new music and recordings being released on LP. The second is that there are a lot of albums that were offered only on CD at the time of their initial release, some of them only recently finally becoming available on LP. Who’d a thought we would live to see that?!

If Terry had ever heard an LP and CD of the same recording played back-to-back on quality players (as have I and others, possessing both LP and CD copies of a fair number of favorite albums), he would be in a better position to have an informed opinion on the subject of their relative strengths and weaknesses.

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Thanks ff, I’ll check them out too. I had all my regular places in L.A. to find LP’s: Record Surplus, Atomic (only a couple of blocks from my house in Burbank. They have a VPI HW-16 RCM), Amoeba, a bunch of others (as well as thrift stores, etc.). I haven’t explored Portland much yet, but I already know it’s an LP kinda town. Every time I go into Music Millennium, more of it’s floor is devoted to LP’s, less to CD’s. I still buy CD’s, but they can be had on Amazon for real cheap. I prefer, if possible, to buy LP’s in a storefront.
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Thanks sejodiren. Yeah, I'm just over the river in Vancouver, but there's no serious record stores over here. I learned of Crossroads just recently, but haven't made it there yet. Soon! Millennium's pretty good as far as stock, but not as far as prices. Full list price on new, over-priced on used. $60 for an LP copy of Something Else By The Kinks?!
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Seeing a common LP (one that I own) priced at $60 in who knows what condition, lead me to conclude my LP collection (somewhere around 3500-4000 titles) is worth a fair chunk-o-change. My CD's (around 3500), not so much. In preparation for my major move a couple years back, I went through my Classical CD's, pulling out 1,000 titles I decided I could live without. Amoeba Music didn't want them, at any price. I then took them to Atomic Records in Burbank (a great little two-brother-owned record shop), who gave me a buck apiece for them. And they were good titles!
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The good news is there are a lot of used LP's out there. The bad news is many of them are damaged beyond repair. I was in Music Millennium last week, and the sounds of a familiar late-60's/early-70's album (try as I might, I just can't recall which one) came over the store's system. I went up to the counter and saw that it was an LP being played, a used one priced at $60. I didn't ask to look at the LP to evaluate it's condition, but it was being played on a not-so-hot turntable, possibly to it's detriment.
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