Why Cd Replaced Vinyl

Released on cd in may 1985 the hit album became a musical mainstay and vinyl fans and audiophiles began to purchase cd players in droves to adopt the growing format.

Why cd replaced vinyl.

I say early 90s vinyl was being replaced by cassette tapes on the late 80s on early 90s the cds start to replace the tapes and i say about 1994 1996 cds simply took over the market for the past few yearswe have seen how digital recording are slowly replacing the cds. Cd sales overtook vinyl in 1988 and cassettes in 1991. Vinyl is at the perfect age. Cds are old but not old enough to be vintage.

Vinyl record sales surpassed cds for the first time in decades. Cds on the other hand have been on the decline. The 2020s have officially begun but based on the music. To say cds have lost their cool factor is a little bit of understatement.

As if time had reversed. The space given over to vinyl meanwhile had expanded and pushed into cd territory. A little history lesson first however came a primitive form of digital recording called pulse code modulation in in 1972 a classical music company denon issued some vinyl which was recorded digitally. Digital records lack the distortion customarily found on lps in loud passages and near the end of a side when the sound is unnaturally compressed.

The set up reminded me of how record shops looked in the 80s when cds first moved in on vinyl. The 12cm optical disc became the biggest money spinner the music industry had ever seen or will ever be likely to see. Ldprod istock via getty images. The mid 1980s i guess.

The new players are designed to plug into. It was as if the switch was on.