Today it is increasingly common in vinyl pressings that.
Why did companies stop making vinyl records.
This rapid decline in the availability of records accelerated the format s decline in popularity and is seen by some as a deliberate ploy to make consumers switch to cds which were more profitable for the record companies.
Sometimes record companies issued longer recordings on large 12 inch discs.
Record companies also deleted many vinyl titles from production and distribution further undermining the availability of the format and leading to the closure of pressing plants.
The sound quality and durability of vinyl records is highly dependent on the quality of the vinyl used.
And vinyl revenue forecasts are still a long way off their peak in the late 70s and early 80s when more than half a billion records were sold annually in the u s.
The red seal line.
Sure the idea that vinyl drowned by the mid 90s under the weight of compact discs and their perfect sound forever is utterly conventional wisdom but a reason came up recently to.
But when the rca company began work on an improved disc in the mid 1940s they stuck to the idea that a record should not have to hold more than one song.
New virgin or heavy 180 220 gram is commonly used for classical music although it has been used for some other genres.