Is Vinyl More Expensive Than Cd

People are still buying more cds than lps.

Is vinyl more expensive than cd.

Vinyl is winning at revenue then because it s more expensive. Thats still three times what youd pay for a digital copy though for a physical artifact usually produced in relatively small batches it seemed fair. Vinyl by comparison is more of an ordeal. In other words the overall vinyl market is more than double the riaa figures over 30 million units in 2017.

Writing for the wall street journal neil shah reported in his article why vinyl s boom is over that. So a record spinning at 45rpm will sound better than the same one built to spin at 33 1 3rpm. But the majority of today s new and re issued vinyl albums around 80 or more several experts estimate start from digital files even lower quality cds. Old lps were cut from analog tapes that s why they sound so high quality.

Per unit an lp is now more than twice as expensive as a cd. The latter is usually preferred for an album as it means you can fit more tracks onto a single disc but it is becoming slightly more popular to. But it s even bigger than that because a lot of new vinyl sales aren t reported. Cds and vinyl are more popular than digital downloads once again.

This is only about revenue not units. Vinyl unit sales are basically flat. Firstly due to rampant piracy for the last 20 years from cd burners and downloading the cost of cds has not risen in line with inflation. A few years back new vinyl cost 25 to 30.

A lot of the cost is inflation and some of the cost is a popularity tax but even then vinyl is still selling in tiny numbers compared to other entertainment so there s only so much novelty add on they can put on and still make it appealing to a wide enough public to sell more units. But the big story is limited streaming services. The resulting vinyl album is pricier for fans who can t even listen. By jacob kastrenakes jake k mar 22 2018 2 00pm edt.

The more information running past the needle per second the more detailed the sound being reproduced. Digital music as source for vinyl. Manufacturing can take at least a month and is more expensive than cd production. Production capacity is up and more stock is being produced in ever greater numbers so theoretically the cost of vinyl should be going down or at least holding steady not going up.