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    Most of the members on here who are into vinyl will have put a lot of money into it, probably over the course of their adult life, and are in a good position to enjoy it. If I were starting out now, with no record player and no vinyl, I'd have to be very determined/well off to start out on that road. Chances are that I would be getting it all through streaming - a premium service can give a month's worth of pretty much everything that's out there for the price of one album on vinyl.
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    I must admit that I'm in two minds about what to spend time & money on.

    A vinyl source or a decent streaming source, currently I'm using Spotify premium through an old mobile phone.

    Vinyl has the aesthetic and sensory (actually touching and owning something physical) attraction but digital makes more sense logically.

    I'm happy with my CDP, amp & speakers (at the moment lol)

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    My vinyl only runs to about 330 now, but its value is nearly 7k. realistically I wont get that of course, but i will have cost more to buy. You can see it quickly adds up. I certainly wouldnt be starting again seriously with it unless i was in a strong financial position. But there is no doubt there is nothing like it when done well. Especially if you like classical as you can pick up nice stuff cheap in secondhand shops still as its not popular.
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    I can't remember the last time I played a cd. It's vinyl or Spotify for me. Cd is half way between vinyl and streaming when it comes to inconvenience.
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    Someone stated here that "CD is an outmoded digital format". I take it from that then that vinyl is not an outmoded analogue format...? Vinyl is outmoded and obsolete and the recent interest is purely hip and trendy with young people who have lots of cash to throw at it. I wonder how many of these people have a multi thousand pound means of playing it...? I have always agreed with people who said that CD was only ever about convenience but these formats will hang around for as long as people still throw money at them. The majority of people want to own a collection of solid, tangible things whether that be CD's, vinyl or old tin plate signs. What a lot of people do not want is to pour money into a set of one's and nought's that only exist in the alignment of molecules of iron oxide. I truly do not understand this ridiculous fad of paying money out for something that simply doesn't exist in 'real' terms. I guess the only thing that humans have never reinvented is the wheel.


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    Quote Originally Posted by paulf-2007 View Post
    I can't remember the last time I played a cd. It's vinyl or Spotify for me. Cd is half way between vinyl and streaming when it comes to inconvenience.
    I had a three hour music session last night playing nothing but CD's (Dire Straits' white album and Shpongle's Museum of Consciousness).

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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    My vinyl only runs to about 330 now, but its value is nearly 7k. realistically I wont get that of course,
    I had around 350 LP's a lot of them recent and I now have around 70 remaining. The total I have taken so far on the sale of them is short of £2k.

    Never again will I pay out close to 26 quid for a vinyl record when the CD can be had for a tenner.

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    I personally think that rather than get worked up and anxious about audio formats we should be more worried about the future of the hi-fi industry and the lack of interest these days from up and coming potential customers. Looking back to 1983 I remember a huge market for hi-fi, I don't see that market anymore.

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    I play mostly CD these days, and that's perhaps because I like the way my main CD player portrays music, its probably far from accurate, but its very enjoyable!
    We all bounce back and forth with most things, be it fashion,politics, or just a change of taste etc, so why should the way we play, or listen to music be any diffrent, therefore; I think all formats of music will be around as long as there are folk who want, and value diversity.
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    Perhaps the GREEN lobby will see off cds vinyl and blue rays, plastic is bad and all that? Granted most people don't clog up the environment with discarded records but I'm sure someone will come up with an argument as to why they should be banned
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