"APR" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote in message
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Don't hold me to these figures but I believe the recent UK sales have
been along the following lines:

2001 - £178,000 (approx)

2005 - over a £million!

Low and behold Keith, on an Aussie TV news channel tonight I started
recording to hard drive just as the announcer was stating that 178,000
records were sold in the year in Aussie 5 years ago. Current sales were
said to exceed 1,000,000/year and demand is climbing. The new buyers were
said to be young people who are replacing their CD collection with vinyl.
They went on to say there is only one press operational in Australia to
meet demand.



The same figures work for Australia also....???

Now, that *is* queer......



I have a young bloke in Sydney who plays Jazz around the venues and he and
his mates (musicians) all play vinyl, although, I wasn't impressed with
the standard of son's turntable last time I looked.


The kid on the (UK) news article I saw said he was using his grandfather's
(??) tt but was saving up for his own!

I suspect the youngsters who do buy decks mostly go for the 'disco' type:

http://www.djkit.co.uk/sectionindexes/decks.php

There are some pretty sexy bits of kit available with inbuilt DACs and Phono
Stages, USB connectivity and (best of all) blue or red lights on 'em!! One
thing which is a bit impressive if the ability to record 78s and 'software
convert' them to 33s!!

http://www.firebox.com/index.html?di...01&src _t=wnp

(Don't know how good it would be, but I suspect it would be hard to
tell...?? ;-)