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Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That's technically true, but it is entirely possible CDs come back as a retro meat-space alternative to the corporate streaming dystopia we're headed towards, or using CDs as a secondary retro proxy to feed nostalgia for production mastering trends of the 1990s-2000s era.

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

They already are! Some young artists are already doing those 2000s nostalgia CD releases for the kicks of having a physical medium.

However a big part of the marketing for vinyl has historically been "the sound is warm/high definition/whatever audiophile bullshit". Anyone can achieve the same "warmth" with an EQ and some crackle/white noise (it works so well it's a whole genre called lofi...), but the "vinyl sounds better" crowd will make the unfalsifiable claim that "it's not the same".
However, good luck claiming that "CDs sound different from FLACs"!

In the end both vinyl and CD enjoyers are doing the same thing: enjoying music through personal and ritualistic manipulation of physical objects, that also come with nice album art. It's just that some vinyl enjoyers are attributing some of that enjoyment to a largely made-up supposed "superiority" of sound (yes there are edge cases like "bad" remasters of songs originally released on vinyl, but is that really why anyone buys a turntable? Be honest.).