Quote Originally Posted by kexodusc
A few years back I read an article on some website somewhere that I tried to find today but couldn't. Maybe someone here will remember it if I try to describe it.

Essentially, it suggested the "weighted average" age of vinyl owners is significantly higher than CD owners. Ie, a 55 - 60 year old guy might have 200 LP's, where a 20 year old kid might have a dozen. The point being something like 90% of LP's are owned and used by people with limited time left on this earth compared to owners of other music formats.

When the aging sector of the market starts dying off at a rate exponentially faster than the CD market (inevitable in 10-25 years), the LP market won't die a long, draw out death, but rapidly die with a whimper.

I suspect LP's will be around for another generation or two in some capacity, but if they dont' start tapping into the younger buyers on a large scale, and fast, I can't see it enduring for long.

Conversely, the opposite could be true as boomers start dying off. As their collections are sold off the LP market could become swiftly gutted. Suddenly, unknown copies of the Butcher cover will start surfacing. Prices will drop and collectors will line up searching to complete their artist catalogues. I'm only 32, I think Jra is younger than me, and Bert's only 17, so there are plenty of young advocates. Vinyl has been dying for 30 years since the entry of the cassette. It will never go away because it does offer full dynamic range and frequency range. Sure it could use better channel separation, but that's okay. Only lo-fi mediums like 8-track and cassette die complete deaths. Although reel to reel was a hi-fi medium that died a comlete death, so I could be wrong.