I've kept up on the news of the "vinyl revival" and it's a common theme from those interviewed, old or young just getting in to it, to praise the sound quality of vinyl over digital.
Putting aside how accurate their impressions are, it nonetheless has me wondering if the vinyl revival will help push even a tiny bit of a surge in the sales of better stereo systems. I mean....for the most part you NEED a stereo system, which many people never really had. (Putting aside the Crosby-type players).
I certainly don't see some new giant wave of money coming in for the high end audio industry, but perhaps we'll see more people thinking about sound systems than we have for many years.
BTW, my wife doesn't share the desire to listen sitting down to music, but to my surprise both my sons - 16 and 20 years old - seem to enjoy sometimes listening to my system. My 16 year old often requests songs he loves to be played on my system, and ends up dancing/air drumming around the room.
My older son sometimes will sit and listen, and several times has had friends come over to listen to a new album release on my stereo. So even his friends seem to "get it" somewhat.
Again, given how these youngsters normally listen - crap headphones or on a laptop, or on their phone - this surprises me.
Putting aside how accurate their impressions are, it nonetheless has me wondering if the vinyl revival will help push even a tiny bit of a surge in the sales of better stereo systems. I mean....for the most part you NEED a stereo system, which many people never really had. (Putting aside the Crosby-type players).
I certainly don't see some new giant wave of money coming in for the high end audio industry, but perhaps we'll see more people thinking about sound systems than we have for many years.
BTW, my wife doesn't share the desire to listen sitting down to music, but to my surprise both my sons - 16 and 20 years old - seem to enjoy sometimes listening to my system. My 16 year old often requests songs he loves to be played on my system, and ends up dancing/air drumming around the room.
My older son sometimes will sit and listen, and several times has had friends come over to listen to a new album release on my stereo. So even his friends seem to "get it" somewhat.
Again, given how these youngsters normally listen - crap headphones or on a laptop, or on their phone - this surprises me.