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

@buck66

“I listen to CD exclusively. I just bought my retirement system, several years early. I figure I can enjoy it while I wait to retire. This is the best sounding system I have ever owned....”

I did exactly the same thing. Bought my retirement system a few years before retiring. It was wonderful. Then I retired. I upgraded my headphone system... that led to upgrading my main system. So over the last year I went through the largest upgrade I have ever done. Post retirement system. My streamer plays at a minimum Red book sound quality... but much of the hundreds of thousand of albums on Qubuz are of higher quality. My vinyl playback is even better. More time... more audio... at least for me.

Vinyl, within epsilon of 100%. Can't remember the last time I powered up the Linn SACD player - and it's not even in the main system.

@chakster 

Younger generation have different attitude about vinyl culture and have so much enthusiasm about it. They appreciate the nature of vinyl and don’t want to make vinyl sound like their father’s or grandfather’s CD. Some of them don’t know what is CD, because they have streaming since they are born (in the digital world). 

:) you definitely too optimistic about those young vinyl lovers. 
I did perform my research on them. The first one is my own daughter, she bought a TT for her college dorm room and another guy is neighbour high schooler. Both of them went to vinyl only because “it’s cool” they definitely don’t care about SQ and act so just because it’s trendy this days. The guy also mentioned that visual movement of platter is the main thing what’s attracting in vinyl music :)))) they also don’t give a clue what is analog vs digital. When I tried to explain the difference both of them made tired faces and tried to switch subject right away. 

@surfmuz my nephew also asked me to help him with his first analog rig, he tried to scratch my records since he was born :))


Now he’s got a Micro Seiki DD with Empire MI cartridge from me, he ordered Trends TA-1 (tripath amp) next step is phono stage,  and then a pair of high efficient speakers like small vintage Tannoy.

Vinyl is definitely very cool and this is most important when you are young.

I listen almost exclusively to vinyl. Maybe a couple times per year I listen to CDs. I also have cassettes. 

Digital is an awful format. The background is quiet, yes. But the audio portion is just abysmal.

millercarbon8,794 posts04-18-2021 8:17pmThis took a lot of research. Cross-referenced and weighted by country, with statistical certainty of six-sigma, the answer is, zero. Zero percent listen exclusively to vinyl.

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