Vinyl sales

goheelz: As my elders use to say, sometimes "it's better to not say anything unless you have something positive to say". Some people just want to bring others down, I guess.

My issue with new vinyl is almost all recordings are inferior to the original pressings. Why? I assume the technology is there to exceed or at least match the first pressings.

Here is a more recent article

http://pitchfork.com/news/64345-vinyl-sales-made-more-money-than-free-streams-last-year/?mbid=social...

Even with the decline of downloads that medium's sales far exceed that of vinyl's and the reason is obvious - vinyl is more expensive. 
A download costs around $10-$12, the same recording on vinyl?  Double that. 

Vinyl also requires the listener to exercise more care in playback, and storage. I'm probably like many members here who started out with the classic stereo gear of the 70's - a receiver, a turntable, two speakers.  That I've stayed with two channel listening since then, and have invested a lot of discretionary income on equipment all along the way, is not necessarily a generational commonality.  

I love the fact that vinyl is coming back, but unless my memory fails me I believe vinyl was a helluva lot cheaper back then. Long live it, but $25 for an LP could scare a lot of newbies away. 

oblgny...agreed that vinyl prices more often than not exceed cds; and of course, downloads, but many new releases...not referring to audiophile...are priced at $14.00-18.00.  Still a higher cost, and yet fully worth it for me.  I hope the medium does not slip back into decline.  It has become my primary source of enjoyment listening.