Much as I love listening to it, used vinyl is getting ridiculously expensive. Most shops I've been to are cashing in on the boom and asking really silly money. I've recently seen old Beatles and Who albums priced as high as £500. Does anyone really pay that kind of money for an old album when you can get the CD for a tenner? Even reissues are expensive, around twenty quid now seems to be the norm, often more. Vinyl, new or used, has never been so expensive.
I recently read an article in another well-known hifi mag where the author was predicting a comeback for another old format, CDs. He argued that DAC technology was now so good, and still evolving, that we hadn't heard the best from CD yet. He says this, and the relatively low price of CDs versus the high price of vinyl, are the reasons why he now only occasionally buys the odd bit of secondhand vinyl, and these days he plays it on a far more modest turntable than he's had in the past.
I'm hoping this vinyl revival is a passing fad and at some point we can get back to finding bargains in charity shops and boot sales.
I recently read an article in another well-known hifi mag where the author was predicting a comeback for another old format, CDs. He argued that DAC technology was now so good, and still evolving, that we hadn't heard the best from CD yet. He says this, and the relatively low price of CDs versus the high price of vinyl, are the reasons why he now only occasionally buys the odd bit of secondhand vinyl, and these days he plays it on a far more modest turntable than he's had in the past.
I'm hoping this vinyl revival is a passing fad and at some point we can get back to finding bargains in charity shops and boot sales.