"Arny Krueger" opined in
uk.rec.audiowJidneLkob8wKfPbnZ2dnUVZ_sapnZ2d@comc ast.com:

"RdM" wrote in message


http://www.musicangle.com/shownews.php?id=104

"David Hayes of the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education at the University of Toronto says the growing
popularity of vinyl might be a form of resistance against
the music industry's corporate taste-makers."

NB that the article I linked is nearly 14mths old. Itself sourced, as below...

The growing popularity of vinyl has been a myth om the US for at least 6
months, now that CD players for DJs that simulate scratching have come down
in price.

Interesting hypothesis, but I suspect merely that. Yes, a vector to consider.

The two source links comments may make interesting reading, especially the
second, from digg.com, and one applies even to your DJ CD scratching decks.
( a comment that they are annoying when they skip - maybe not so different!)
(I have a friend who has one, along with mixing amp monitors & turntables too)

For those too lazy to cut&paste from my earlier lazy link, given for the site,
which I'd just stumbled across and browsed, in the hope that some may enjoy;
( i.e. for such gems as Zen and the Art of Record Cleaning Made Difficult;=})
( http://www.musicangle.com/feat.php?id=54 ) and other features from there)

these were the source references given:

http://www.physorg.com/news64807495.html
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Teens_...uperior_to_CDs

The context of this tangential sub-thread; was revulsion to dynamic
compression ... I'm noting a rediscovery of even limited vinyl in response.

Merely. Notwithstanding any drop in price for DJ CD decks. No argument.

And even now, here is a US site going online selling vinyl & DVD-A ... why?

http://www.warnerreprise.com/artist_.../bsm-email.htm

Money is part of it of, course, if not almost all ... meeting another market.

Yes, it's a myth ...

Personally, I'm not interested in their touted offerings, and I'm not even
advocating vinyl - and I have suberb shop selections of it where I live anyway
- I include it as one of my sources though, with affection despite its faults!

Just a conversational note or three ... ;=})

--
Ross Matheson
Auckland, New Zealand