That’s something that today’s digital files just can’t replace.” There is something romantic about records, something satisfying about opening the album jacket, seeing the fantastic artwork and studying the liner notes while listening to the album. In large part I think that’s the case except with vinyl records. The ability to stop and sit and listen to an album from beginning to end, that’s something that always has been and always will be relevant.”Ĭharlie Randall, CEO of McIntosh Labs, agrees, saying: “I think it’s natural for any generation to think that the technology of their time will be replaced by future technology and go extinct. “In every store we go into we hear it, and we’re consuming more music than ever before, but not in the same way.

“You hear music when you’re in the coffee shop, in the car, in the gym, just walking down the street sometimes, we hear it everywhere,” says Scott Hagen, CEO of Victrola. The way most people listen to music has changed. And while you might think it’s nostalgic Boomers or Gen Xers behind the renaissance of records, in fact surveys show it’s millennial consumers driving the rising trend in vinyl sales. The reasons for this are twofold: CD sales have dropped dramatically in recent years, while sales of vinyl records are actually up this year. This year, 2020, marks the first year in more than a generation since record sales - that is to say physical vinyl records - have surpassed CD sales. And MP3 players were replaced by phones, as were cameras, pocket planners, and our social lives, more or less. In that time, cassette tapes came and went.

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