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Should have added that I always use a carbon fiber brush before playing a side. Don’t think the grading with the Puffin was measuring a reduction in static electricity after the wet clean. Correction. Not a carbon fiber brush. Brush using “acrylic fiber chemically bonded with copper...

I use a cheap spin clean, rinse with distilled water, then rack dry. New LPs with some crackle, and I’ve graded them, wet cleaned them this way, then graded again. Using the grade feature of a Parks Audio Puffin Phono DSP. Often see a half grade improvement. B- to B, C+ to B-, etc., after...

If not here, it’ll pop up elsewhere. Where this thread can be referenced. Post in thread 'Vinyl record sales continue to rise amid music streaming’s dominance'

I can stream classical and jazz all day long without listening fatigue. Popular genres, not so much. Atmos rendered to stereo helps. But then, I still collect some classical and jazz records too. Not because I expect them to sound better than streaming (though they can, if they have...

Does ChatGPT’s training data include this thread? ;)

Gah. Imposters! As someone who grew up around Detroit I’m offended. :) AMERICA'S ONLY ROCK 'N' ROLL MAGAZINE Spelled c r e e m.

3 copies from $500.00, and 13 copies from $337.50. Yikes. ;)

‘87 CD release, mastered by Barry Diament. Best it’s ever sounded, to me.

Maybe the very early CD releases used pre-emphasis, or worse, used the same source as the LP, without accounting for the RIAA equalization. Dunno. CD copy I have is from ‘86 or later.

Oh, so this, Avalon on CD versus LP, is sort of a thing in audiophile circles. Had no idea. From Analog Planet, re Avalon: “The CD version was issued in the fall of 1982—one of the first CDs ever and a sonic abomination that got me started with ‘saving vinyl’ in the first place when I heard...

Have Avalon on CD and on LP. Both the original mix and mastering. Maybe I’ll see if I can get the family to try and pick out any differences blind while I switch back and forth. :). My recollection is they sound pretty similar, but the last time I listened to the CD was in the car. Looks...

Volatility and anti-American resentment are already hurting the niche vinyl industry, but a little-known law could help it survive. The part where imported LPs could be unaffected by tariffs while domestic production gets whacked is a twist.

Yikes.

Pretty low priority on the list of things to worry about, but I do have some morbid curiosity about what tariffs are gonna do to the cost, release cadence, and demand for new LPs in the US. Large percentage of newer records I’ve bought over the last decade or so have been pressed in Europe...

Might be of interest. Inflation Is Changing the Way We Collect Records.

Not sure how reliable, accurate this is though. If you look at cd units for 2023 in the 2024 stats, it’s 32.4 million. But in the 2023 stats it’s 37 million CDs for 2023. LP units for 2023 match in the two most recent reports. CD units for 2023 don’t.

Unit LP growth seems to be slowing compared to year over year from 2022 to 2023. 40.5 million units in 2022 and 43.2 in 2023. Per 2023 stats. Versus 43.6 in 2024.

Or they’re just doing different things. “..the album’s method of release represents a bold act of protest against the big streaming services, in a moment when artists on Spotify with less than 1,000 streams per year have now been demonetized. Cindy Lee proved it’s possible to develop a cult...

Not sure Luminate’s data is reliable yet. But Taylor Swift’s huge effect is interesting to consider. If you look at this week’s best selling on discogs, Taylor Swift is there, but so is Cindy Lee’s Diamond Jubilee, which was first released nearly a year ago, though only as a digital download...

The discrepancy between listening and sales figures sure seems to suggest that collectibility unrelated to listening is a substantial factor in the sustained level of interest in LPs. Jibes with my own anecdotal experience. Still regularly find used CDs that go for a fraction of their...