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RE: Vinyl Asylum and Mr. Bear on Steve Hoffman June 2004. What's the future of vinyl?

Posted by mr.bear (A) on February 9, 2018 at 12:13:43

In Reply to: Vinyl Asylum and Mr. Bear on Steve Hoffman June 2004. What's the future of vinyl? posted by HamBone77 on February 8, 2018 at 10:15:53:

I gotta say it's a little hurtful to have your words from almost 15 years ago barfed up like that. This graph says it all, though. In 2004, Bear figured vinyl would dwindle to almost zero, a few boutique manufacturers pressing a few hundred titles annually, the merely good (CD) being the enemy of the great (LP). And that the supply of pre-1984 "vintage" vinyl would dwindle- i.e. that good condition 'vintage' vinyl would trade for exorbitant prices as the small number of collectors bought up the good stuff. I never foresaw the huge wave of popularity for LP's that came on in 2007. Maybe, through the spyglass backward, I look like a traitor to my treasured hobby...

I did act on my own cruddy advice and increased my vinyl record stash to a peak of about 3000 LP's while prices were low, with the goal of listening to a ton of records in retirement. We're doing that - deeply enjoying cleaning, listening, and trading these now. Vintage vinyl prices have become exorbitant (in my opinion, but I never thought a loaf of bread would run $5 bucks either...;-) That leaves me in the position of sitting on a valuable stack of plastic and as I thin the herd the proceeds are used to improve my HiFi and add more, different music to it.

Beyond that, a team of *New Vinyl* listeners are rising to prominence in VA. There seem to be fewer posts every year oriented to keeping one's old playback equipment alive as the forum moves to discussions of the merits of newfangled gear plus a few cult-favorites from the Golden Age" -- all as far beyond my budget as are newly-pressed LP's. Bedrock vintage-vinyl madmen like Muzikmike are gone and that sort of fun stuff with him, largely, and - apologies to OldDude, Ashra, Fenderlover - there's just not as much interest in records from those golden years when Zeppelin ruled the Earth. There are people here who would actually say "Zeppelin who?" So it seems to me like a new hobby has emerged from the ashes of the old. I'm going to stop checking in to VA and spend some online time with "Vintage Audio Collectors and Technicians" (a FaceBook closed group).

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