Why Is Vinyl More Expensive Than Cd

And actually the cost is now cheaper than it was in the 70 s 80 s if you think about inflation.

Why is vinyl more expensive than cd.

Cds can also hold 74 minutes of music. The table below lists the sampling rate and the accuracy for cd recordings and the maximum sampling rate and accuracy for dvd recordings. A few years back new vinyl cost 25 to 30. Writing for the wall street journal neil shah reported in his article why vinyl s boom is over that.

When cd s were first released a vinyl cost approx 6 9 cd s first entered the market costing 15 25 some double cd s up to 35 like anything consumer demand quickly brought the price down. That s about 10 20 more than what it would have cost me back in 1981 and exactly the same it would have cost me 20 years ago. By lowering either the sampling rate or the accuracy dvds can hold more music. Thats still three times what youd pay for a digital copy though for a physical artifact usually produced in relatively small batches it seemed fair.

Old lps were cut from analog tapes that s why they sound so high quality. In 2008 i bought the beatles magical mystery tour reissue new for 25 chf in media markt d oh. Dvds can hold 74 minutes of music at their highest quality level. Digital music as source for vinyl.