I received a number of emails in response to Audio Myth: Vinyl better than CD? in which I disputed claims of vinyl’s “superiority” over CD/digital made in a recent Wired Magazine column (see Vinyl May ...

This trend continues in RIAA’s 2019 mid-year report, which came out on Thursday. Vinyl records earned $224.1 million (on 8.6 million units) in the first half of 2019, closing in on the $247.9 million ...

Back in the mid-1980s, as surely as video had killed the radio star a few years earlier, it seemed inevitable that CDs would relegate vinyl records to the landfill of history. I was not an early ...

(light music) - I cannot make music. I can play the stereo, but I can't play the guitar. My connection to the arts is some kind of manufacturing, whether it's making film or printing books, I'm the ...

Ever since I picked up the Marantz PM-11S2 turntable, I've been amassing quite a collection of vinyl records. Flip the clock back two years ago and I would have never considered spinning records on my ...

Vinyl sales increased by 55.8% from 2010 to 2011, and then 131.8% from 2011 to 2012. Furthermore, there was an 18.5% year-over-year increase in sales of new vinyl from 2016 to 2017. While sales have ...

Video killed the radio star, but vinyl records may yet outlive CDs. Vinyl albums outsold CDs last year for the first time since 1987, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, an ...

What just happened? With cinemas showing Dune and, soon, Beetlejuice, and the world in a tense standoff with Russia, it sometimes feels like we're back in the 1980s. Another phenomenon reminiscent of ...

The days of vinyl records being a nostalgic relic of the past are long gone. This year, vinyl sales have outpaced CD sales in the United States for the first time since the 1980s. Vinyl records ...