Vinyl was enjoying some popularity with the 30s crowd. They like to display album covers as art work.. I had written before about my nephew, otherwise a fairly intelligent guy, buying an lp and then being shocked to learn he couldn’t play it in a computer disc drive. One of my son’s girlfriend, who truly is an idiot, buys LPs and plays them them on some box of a contraption that includes a turn table, speakers, usb port and Bluetooth transmitter. It retails for $50 and she then raves about the sound of her $40 Barnes and Noble vinyls.
Antique stores are dying. No one wants old big heavy furniture, silver, or china that smells of mold and moth balls. However there will apparently always be a desire for stuff from yester year . Vinyl and CD fill some of that need. It occupies less space, has a higher spousal acceptance factor, and is a lot more functional than a set of dishes that are hauled out twice a year for holiday meals.
The CD players that will fit the antique collectors wants the best are the top loaders and ones that show the spinning disc. After all you can’t watch the bits from a streamer produce music