AH Challenge: Vinyl Remains Dominant

It's pretty common amongst the 'hispters' and 'indie' kids of today in OTL. I should know, I'm one of them, I had a record player and all my grandfather's old records for my 18th birthday a couple of weeks ago.

Perhaps some kind of massive subculture or counterculture?
 
IIRC, the cost of records went up as the cost of vinyl went up in the oil crisis, and that's when tapes really took over.
 
Is it the sound of vinyl, you wish to have or have you just have a lot of space. If the former there can be quite cheap ways to get that vinyl sound, even with mp 3 down loads. Just get a good valve amp it will make a nice warm sound, even going back to late '70's early '80's with tranny amps can be 'better' than the bland CD players.
As a semi pro guitar and bass player I have a number of amps. There is a very big difference between my Vox AC-15 (valve) and my Fender Priceton (tranny). The Fender is better for a clean sound, it dosen't distort a higher volume, but the dirty channel it sounds too fizzy. On the other hand the Vox is better for cranking up, it's much warmer.
OK back to the topic:). You could have a situation were Phillips dosen't think is worth the time, trouble and money for devloment.

Another thing has anyone got a turntable for sale?:D
 

Perkeo

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You may stop the CD, but in the long term the victory of digital media is unpreventable. So if the CD isn't accepted by the music industry, e.g. because they cannot agree on a standard format - the MP3 is going to hit even harder.
 
Not entirely true. Vanilla CDs (as opposed to MP3 etc) have less runtime than cassettes and their sound quality is less rich than LPs. Convenience is really what drove their adoption - that and exaggerated early claims about their durability.

and how many albums are recorded with the 2*45 minutes of a C90 in mind ...

given the difficulties with physically fitting enough suitably durable tape for longer into a compact cassette
 
Would vinyl being the dominant format bring any major changes to music itself (IE, certain genres being more or less popular than in OTL)?
 
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