When will analog vinyl lp's stopped being pressed.

[spotlightkid]

How much longer before the analog lp's pressing plants stop pressimg lp's.do you think within 5,10 or 20 years.i think within 10 years by 2012 there will be no more new vinyl pressings.i still love the sound of a clean lp,but i don't think the market will be there in 10 years.

[Ronflugelguy]

It depends on whether or not scratching is still popular! I would assume that the djs keep the pressing plants in business, but I know I'm buying all the reissues I can to do my part to keep vinyl alive.

[PsychFan]

I definitely think it's true that hip-hop and rap have played a huge part in keeping vinyl alive. I could care less about that music, but I guess I should thank those folks whenever I enjoy a minty new LP ...

[Paul Chang]

Originally posted by spotlightkid
How much longer before the analog lp's pressing plants stop pressimg lp's.do you think within 5,10 or 20 years.i think within 10 years by 2012 there will be no more new vinyl pressings.i still love the sound of a clean lp,but i don't think the market will be there in 10 years.
The demise of vinyl records had been predicted in the 80's and in the 90's before it was in this forum.:p Long live the Long Play (1948 - )! Long live the Gramophone (1893 - )! Rest in peace the Phonograph (1877 - ?)!

[AudioGirl]

It will be a sad day if your prediction ever comes true...

But chin up... They still make Tab, even though Diet Coke is the prevalent choice these days.

(Notice, I say IF your prediction NOT when... please, oh please, oh please!) :( :(

[Ronflugelguy]

WE just need to keep the word out there. I always let people I run into know I am interested in lps. Sometimes I have been given lps which were otherwise going to be thrown away! It just sickens me when I hear of this when its already happened.But if lps are purchased, then lps will continue to exist. I biught seven this last week. and that just puts a small dent in my want list.

[Dave B]

Outside of the Hip Hop, D.J. world. I think that vinyl may survive as a esoteric audiophile source for some time. There are quite a few of us out here willing to pay a reasonable premium for quality pressings. The problem is that due to the low volumes most companies will only be interested in producing records that have guaranteed mass appeal. The down side of this is that we may keep getting re-issues of the same 25 or 30 LPs (Led Zepplin, Cream, CCR, The Who etc.) Hopefully, some companies like Sundazed and S&P will try to reach a little deeper into the archives and take a risk on some less popular but still interesting releases.

[Gary]

I try to do my bit - and perhaps we all should consider this - by special ordering LPs through major record stores if they are not on the shelves. HMV can get (and has stock of) some Simply Vinyl and Sundazed. I complained recently when they could not get Classic Records.

I know the effort of one or two people is pretty small. But remember the story of Chicken Little!

:)

And don't forget the S&P Vinyl Steve is working on! As well as DCC... ummmm DCC everything, I guess! I wonder what's going on in that neck of the woods? :confused: I'd love to know. But Steve will let us know what's happenng as soon as he is able. Patience............ is driving me nuts!!!!!!

[Andy]

LONG LIVE VINYL!!!!!


For some reason I keep buying the stuff I just don’t listen to it as much. I think I got spoiled on convenience.

[petzi]

Originally posted by Ronflugelguy
Sometimes I have been given lps which were otherwise going to be thrown away! It just sickens me when I hear of this when its already happened.

That reminds me of a similar story I heard often when asking for old valves in radio shops: "Yeah, we used to have that until two years ago, when we trashed them, a couple hundred of them. Pity, but we needed the space."
In one store I was told they trashed over a thousand valves of different types. They could have made me so happy with that....

[Paul Chang]

I try to do my part by making vinyl records my second highest expenditure, only behind my home mortgage payments. Sure I would like to get myself a sports car, upgrade my stereo equipments and move to a house with a big enough rec room to put a pool table in, but they have to wait.

I am not sure ordering through major "record" stores would make any difference, except for helping RIAA get a more accurate number on vinyl. Many music consumers of the post baby boomer generations (outside this forum, of course;)) may not even know why Tower has the word "Records" in its name.:confused: The bottom line is to convince the companies still making records that this is a profitable business. I suspect that the majority of new/reissue vinyl record sales in the US occur under the radar screen of RIAA. But the bean counters at the record companies, at least the smaller ones (reissue specialists), should know their numbers better.

We vinyl lovers did not have a say when records were pulled from the shelves of major stores more than a decade ago.:mad: But we will have none other than ourselves to blame if the same tragedy happens again to reissue vinyl records.:mad::mad:

[Steve Hoffman]

For those of you Americans who don't know, when Petzi talks about "valves", he means vacuum tubes! :)

[Beagle]

i think within 10 years by 2012 there will be no more new vinyl pressings.i still love the sound of a clean lp,but i don't think the market will be there in 10 years That's what they said in 1984.

[Paul Chang]

Originally posted by Steve Hoffman
For those of you Americans who don't know, when Petzi talks about "valves", he means vacuum tubes! :)

And I want four of them (the triode type) per cylinder in the engine of my dream car.;)

[Grant]

Well, i'm going to shop for some used vinyl tomorrow...to transfer to CD-R.:cool:

[Beagle]

Well, that's one way of making a decent sounding CD ;)

[petzi]

Originally posted by Steve Hoffman
For those of you Americans who don't know, when Petzi talks about "valves", he means vacuum tubes! :)

Oops... I learned in school that "trousers" and "lorry" are unknown to Americans, but I didn´t know that "valve" is British English only... Thanks for pointing this out... :rolleyes:

[AudioGirl]

Originally posted by petzi


Oops... I learned in school that "trousers" and "lorry" are unknown to Americans, but I didn´t know that "valve" is British English only... Thanks for pointing this out... :rolleyes:

I thought everybody knew what trousers were! Does that make me British that I know what all of those things are? :p

Only the English really speak English... For the most part, we American speak American. :D

[petzi]

Originally posted by AudioGirl


I thought everybody knew what trousers were! Does that make me British that I know what all of those things are? :p




It is probably a matter of education. I once heard a mean proverb, saying that the importance of an information to an American equals the reciprocal value of the square of the distance of its origin ;)

Don´t beat me, please.... :D

[bmoura]

Originally posted by spotlightkid
How much longer before the analog lp's pressing plants stop pressimg lp's.

One caveat here.

Not all of the master tapes that LP pressing plants use these days are analog! So there's no guarantee that the sound on an LP is from an analog tape.