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What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital?

I well remember in the ‘80s when we were amazed and thrilled by CD.
Wow, no more pops and clicks and all the physical benefits.
Seems so many abandoned vinyl.
But now, with so much convenience, available content and high SQ seems even dedicated vinylholics have again abandoned vinyl and embraced digital. However, there is clearly a new resurgence in analog.
But I look at, for example, whitecamaro’s “List of amplifiers...” thread and no one seems interested in analog!
To me, it seems strange when auditioning “$100Kish gear, that vinyl doesn’t enter the picture or conversation.
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My son (a college kid) and some of his friends buy LPs. They buy many LPs from new artists that many of Agoners may have never heard of. Some of them cost A LOT, over $50, or even over $100. We are not talking about 1st press Beatles or 50/60s jazz albums.
Do you imagine listening to Kanye West’s music in LPs?
An interesting thing is, those new LPs sound just like CDs or even streaming, and I ask my son why he buys LPs. He says, it is cool to play vinyls, and maybe for investment.
For me, about 60% vinyl and 40% CD/streaming.
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