I really hadn't intended to restart the endless debate over which is better vinyl or cd, again. I'm sure among audiophiles, it will never go away. I'm firmly on one side and if you've read my postings in the past, you know which one it is. What I was really getting at is that time marches on. Unlike vacuum tubes which have had a minor resurgence in the last few years (although you may have noticed that there are no new ones being designed, just inferior copies of the ones made 40 to 50 years ago in $hitholes like Serbia, China, and Russia), nobody is pressing new vinyl on a serious basis. Those under thirty may not know it but in vinyl's heyday, you could find it everywhere. Not only in record stores but there wasn't a department store in America or a five and dime that didn't have a record department. And the advertising was also everywhere. Every major department and record store used to advertise discounts on records in every Sunday paper, usually with full page ads. Who were the biggies? Sam Goody was vast with 3 stores on 41st street in NYC just to hold it all. EJ Korvette had a big department. So did the Record Hunter. And then Tower Records came to New York. Where are they now? All gone. Sam Goody was sold to Musicland USA in 1984 and now has cheap cd outlets in shopping malls. Tower Records went bankrupt recently and Korvettes is ancient history. As for the others, they'll sell some cds but it seems more out of just being able to say yes we have a cd department too. It seems to me the recording industry is dying and the vinyl phonograph record industry is reduced to a small niche market of die hard audiophiles. To most people, they are more like museum pieces than technology.