Why Is Vinyl More Expensive Than Cd

Digital music as source for vinyl.

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. 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. 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. In 2008 i bought the beatles magical mystery tour reissue new for 25 chf in media markt d oh.

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. Cds can also hold 74 minutes of music. Old lps were cut from analog tapes that s why they sound so high quality. Dvds can hold 74 minutes of music at their highest quality level.

Why is new mainstream vinyl now so expensive is it. And actually the cost is now cheaper than it was in the 70 s 80 s if you think about inflation. 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.