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Number of sales: CD vs LP

One of my friend recently told me that the overall sale of LPs surpassed CDs. Can it be true? I thought he was joking, but somehow he was serious.
Well, MP3s and music download certainly has not helped to boost the CD sales, but I think the overall LP sale is still a fraction of CD sales.

Anyway, I've seen steady increase in used LP sales. I could get decent ones at $1~3 about 6~7 years ago, but now it is more like $3~6.
ihcho

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Hello Ihcho,

Albert's comments are consistent with what I read for 2005 sales numbers. I can't remember the source.

In "high resolution" format (the sum total of DVD-A plus SACD), vinyl is outselling digital.

Of course, the low-rez format (Redbook, 44.1) prevails over vinyl. This is no surprise.

Cheers,
Thom @ Galibier
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