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

Until I see the survey results, I assume ZERO!  There are digital stations in our cars, on television, and who has not owned a CD player, especially in a car?  Maybe you mean on our best home system?  Maybe juke box owners?   Maybe I amazed....

I have two systems with turntables plus a server with about 4000 CDs on it (I have a similar number of LPs). For casual listening, digital gets used more. For listening sessions, it is probably 75% analogue for me.

The room acoustical bad controls of most users reinforce the choice of vinyl because vinyl S.Q. format resist more to a non optimal acoustical room settings...Digital to shine ASK for optimal acoustical controls more than vinyl, because of the technical aspect and measured potential performance of this format...

Please allow me to rephrase for you Mahgister, because what you wrote is potentially import (even though this thread didn't ask what people like).


The are unique properties in what we could call the signal processing of vinyl, whether that is channel cross talk, increasing distortion at frequency extremes, added noise, etc.  Some of those, like crosstalk, could be conducive, in poor acoustic environments (most audiophiles rooms) to higher satisfaction. Similarly, the distortion and background noise can give a sense of space, or even realism that some may find lacking in digital.  What are perceived flaws, can be an advantage, both overall, and for particular listeners.

I listen exclusively to analog, Vinyl or R2R only. I turn 75 later this year and although I dabbled a bit in digital when it first arrived I never left my analog world. Some of this might be due to the fact I deal with 1400 computers, 2000 Chromebooks and 5 servers all day long and when I get home a nice single malt and some analog is the way I go!

LOL :) Right on!