WTF?
I was responding to your own description of YOUR experience and goals when playing vinyl, and saying I understand it makes sense. And now that's "nonsense?"
you posts are replete with your misunderstanding of this very issue, as you equivocate increased vinyl sales with some ideation that LPs are something other than an alternative merchandising channel product which generates revenue...
What you call 'equivocating' is simply explaining what I get out of vinyl, and trying to understand and describe what others have said too.
You've just tried to reduce the enthusiasm for vinyl down to some simple marketing/merchandising point. Did you stop to think why this "alternative merchandising product" generates revenue...in fact ever increasing revenue since 2007? It's because there's a market: people are getting value out of playing records. Answering
why is a central theme of this thread, and it goes entirely unanswered by simplistic reductions like you've given above.
for those who prefer to own a larger format 'thing' they can hold in their hand - great... it has big pictures with liner notes - and maybe they will hang-it up on their wall... a valid choice for those spending their money...
Ok. So...you've recognized that vinyl is a valid choice for other people. That's a start. But as has been detailed in this thread, not to mention countless articles and interviews on the subject, the reasons people are buying vinyl are wide raging. If you think you've exhausted the reasons people have for getting in to records, you haven't been paying attention. I could go over them again, but your responses suggest it will fall on deaf ears. You don't seem interested in any facts that dare go beyond a cynical "it's just merchandising" take.
but for many of us who have made records for a living for +/- half a century or more - we just do the math of the noise floor differences of an LP and a digital mix in our heads - and wish them luck in these artist-challenged economic times...
Sure, that's perfectly fine. FOR YOU.
This is where you seem to be conflating things, in exactly the way I cited in the first pages of this thread: You seem to think that because YOU have a certain dim view of vinyl from your own experience and goals, and that you have a very narrow interest in what you can get out of records, that talk of other motivations - even if someone enjoys the sound quality - is just bogus and handwaving, and there isn't much more to vinyl than mere merchandising. That's just facile.
Like you I grew up with records, experienced the transition to CD/digital. I've recorded as a band in the analog and digital era. I've done work in sound since the early 80s, professionally since early 90's, I made the transition from working with analog tape to digital, I work on a DAW in high quality digital sound, and in my own music system use professional level DACs. I'm hardly unfamiliar with the differences between digital and analog. So like you I've been around the block.
But...gasp!...I still get more out of records than you do. You don't think about sound quality at all when listening to a record? I think about it all the time, and I think they can sound fantastic (as do all the guests who have heard records on my system). People really can have good reasons to like vinyl in ways you don't.
Sorry if those facts don't mesh with your cynical narrative.
