Sony to start making vinyl records again...

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Sony to start making vinyl records again after 30-year hiatus as demand for the retro music format surges.



A Sony factory southwest of Tokyo will begin producing records by March 2018

The Japanese firm stopped making records in 1989 due to dropping demand

At the time consumers were flocking to CDs and other new music technology

But surging demand for vinyl records has forced Sony back into the market



Three decades after it abandoned vinyl production, Sony says it will start making records again on the back of surging demand for the retro music format.

A factory southwest of Tokyo will be churning out freshly pressed records by March next year, Sony Music Entertainment said Thursday.

The Japanese firm stopped making vinyl records in 1989, a company spokesman said, as consumers flocked to compact discs and other emerging music technology.

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Wow,pretty cool! I've been slowly buying new and old records over the past 6 years or so. They just sound so much better than mp3's. Plus there's something to be said about the tactile experience. Going to the store paying cash for a new or reissued record, taken it home cracking the cellophane and the smell of a factory fresh album! Oh man......no mp3 experience can even come close. Now I get the convenience factor of mp3's,but I don't really like them. I use them from time to time. However I've found in most cases they have poor performance in the low end as well as the high end. Real good midrange,but you gotta turn up the bass and treble. With records,not so much.So I say long live the vinyl record!!!
 
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jimmyjimmy19702010 said:
If they make LPs from digitised masters, then it won't have that warm analogue sound we all want. Hopefully, they'll use analogue masters.
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Some of the vinyl recently released has been produced from digitalised masters so I stick to sellers with a good reputation or, more usually, second hand albums in VG+ condition. Personally, I think the remastered from digital recordings should be identifiable by clearly indicating this on the outer sleeve. Whether or not there'll be any standardisation of remastering from a digital format remains to be seen.
 
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