Is the Vinyl Revival well and growing?

The lifespan of spherical/conical and elliptical styli is very short on conventional SPU cartridges with extremely high tracking force up to 4g. 
Do you guys sending your SPU to re-tipper every 500 hrs ? Just curious. 

There is only two SPU models originally designed with the most advanced modern prfile (Replicant 100) which can serve you up to 2000 hrs. I'm talking about Ortofon SPU Royal G mkII with Replicant 100 and special coil wire. The tracking force also reduced to 2.5 - 3.5g range.  Replicant 100 Stylus will read the musical information in the grooves of a record with a greater degree of accuracy than any other kind of needle! Also less record wear than with Spherical/Elliptical. 

Hi Chakster, is there a deeper relationship between the lifespan of SPU's and the 'vinyl revival'? Inquiring minds want to know.... ;-)

I've also read/heard that many of the younger people buying vinyl, rarely actually listen to records, and often don't even own a turntable...like buying a book collection to fill the bookcase...

Most of my friends sold their vinyl when compact discs became fashionable. 

I wouldn’t, or perhaps couldn’t. Not sure even now. 

Going strong at 8,000+. 

Hm...What advertising will do to the young and impressionable! All this vinyl rage is the latest fad and advertising scam. After growing up with earbuds and mp3 files, anything would have to be an improvement. Can you remember about 1980 when CD's were first introduced? We were all astatic about the new medium that promised nothing but perfect sound. No more click, pops, limited dynamic range, stylus jumping out of the groove on loud passages.OH JOY! OH RAPTURE! It was a dream come true for us audiophiles.

There were only three major events in the history of recorded music. The original acoustic horn method on cylinders 1880's, later followed by electrical recorded records 1925 and the next audio improvement digital recording approximately 1978. 

Arguably, many early digital CD releases leaved something to be desired but as the technology grew, many magnificent sonic recordings became available. Those made by Telarc continued to sound a step ahead of the major labels. Had the other followed in the same steps and used the Telarc digital recording setup, there would be no need for SCAD, DSD, DVD Audio and Blu-ray audio disc. None of those techniques every got up off the ground because most audiophiles couldn't notice much if any improvement over the original compact disc. And here again we have the usual advertising BS telling us these new methods and extra bits are going to give us the ultimate audio heaven listening experience. So, what did you here, that's what I heard!

Us older folk know better and the young and uninitiated will have to live and learn. Vinyl will continue to click, pop, jump, etc. Vinyl sales have dropped this year and most likely will contiue do so in favor of a more technically superior medium.