As compressed mp3 files and digital streaming services from youtube to pandora have become the norm for music listening vinyl sales have skyrocketed from under a million in 2007 to potentially.
Why listening to vinyl is better.
Sales of vinyl records have been soaring although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry s revenues.
If a song is recorded on tape its conversion to vinyl better preserves the original sound of the song.
In case i haven t convinced you so far here are 10 reasons why you should be listening to vinyl.
Let s take a trip to a record store and i ll tell you the four reasons why 12 vinyl records are better than digital mp3.
When listening to vinyl you can hear all of the emotions an artist puts into a song.
Vinyl didn t die when jimi hendrix did.
Maybe it was coincidence but vinyl began its resurgence at around the same time as recordings started this trend.
With vinyl you don t skip tracks you listen to an entire record from top to bottom.
Vinyl is back no doubt about it.
About 2 percent in 2014.
While this isn t the case with modern records it s important to remember that any record released in the 1970.
It s very much alive and is much more preferable than listening to music in a digital format.
You ll also hear vinyl enthusiasts discussing the warm sound they get from their record players.
It s for this reason that vinyl sounds better than digital.
It wasn t long before vinyl recordings of the same content often had better sound quality at normal listening volumes simply because they had higher dynamic range.
There can be booming louds and gentle softs.
The music floats within the middle range of pitches which is comfortable for humans to listen to.