What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital?

@chakster

Convenience is important when you’re old

Ummmm.....I’m ‘old’. I think you you might be over generalizing, just a tad.

Now, my mother is 86, has some physical ailments that make is very hard for her to get around, even to get out of her chair, and into another, or a car, or her bed. But that has nothing to do with laziness. It is much more convenient for her to have digital sources for her use in all forms. And she does. It makes her life much easier than it may have been 30-40 years ago.

Could that happen to me too? Sure it could, and I do think about that, and what that could mean in continuing my audio journey in years to come. At that point, should the same happen, I may also have to also forego my love for analog physical medium too in order to continue to enjoy my music. But that won’t be because of laziness or convenience as a choice, but rather a necessity.

I guarantee that the vast majority of ‘young people’ are only using digital sources as well. And even among them, turntables and LP use is still a small percentage of all those who listen to music. It may be growing, sure, but at what percentage? It isn’t like when I was young, and if you listened to music, you had to have a turntable and records.

 I started listening to CD from the 90's, skipped the first good selling years of digital and increased my vinyl collection. Now i mostly listen to Vinyl and FM, CD/SACD comes after. So one vote for the percentage.
 Re-entering vinyl or start afresh is not happening today, has started for some time now. Same people listening to all formats, nothing wrong with that.
As for no one seems interested in analogue check AG "whats on your turntable tonight".

G

@bkeske my mom is 78 this year, but we are not talking about moms here, ok?


I’m talking about lazy audiophiles and 90% of the a’gon members are over 60, they are often complaining that it’s too complicated for them to flip vinyl record while they are listening to music, and “clicks and pops” are so annoying for them, so they discovered better format and this format is CD (sensational news). 


Vinyl industry did not die because of the dance music in the 90’s and it was difficult times, let’s face it too. That was music for young generation and it has nothing to do with audiophiles. 


DJs/collectors rediscovered music from the 70’s in the 90’s and spread it all over the world once again (via fm radio, clubs, on mixtapes). 


Nothing changed much, they are still doing it, and there are only young people in the recordshops in my town, audiophiles world is just parallel reality. 

However, music on high-end shows is extremely boring, same tunes. 


Streaming is just like FM radio, you can always use it, but there are vinyl world somewhere near to buy records, this is a lifestyle. 

I use Amazon HD digital in the car, and used to use it on headphones at work, but I work at home since covid and listen almost exclusively to vinyl.  I occasionally use digital to check out new music, and sometimes for background music thru the living room HT system.

I find that having to flip sides and change records keeps me from spending hours straight coding without moving from my chair.  I tend to get really focused.