Why Is Vinyl More Expensive Than Cd

Old lps were cut from analog tapes that s why they sound so high quality.

Why is vinyl more expensive than cd.

Writing for the wall street journal neil shah reported in his article why vinyl s boom is over that. Digital music as source for vinyl. By lowering either the sampling rate or the accuracy dvds can hold more music. Dvds can hold 74 minutes of music at their highest quality level.

But the majority of today s new and re issued vinyl albums around 80 or more several experts estimate start from digital files even lower quality cds. And actually the cost is now cheaper than it was in the 70 s 80 s if you think about inflation. 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. 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.

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. A few years back new vinyl cost 25 to 30. Production capacity is up and more stock is being produced in ever greater numbers so theoretically the cost of vinyl should be going down or at least holding steady not going up. Cds can also hold 74 minutes of music.