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    REDISCOVER VINYL

    Oct 18, 2020 4 minutes

    While we were preparing our turntable round-up for this issue, the news came through of vinyl’s latest triumph — in the first half of 2020, vinyl sales in the US made more money than CD sales. Nor was it a small lead; over the previous year CD sales had collapsed by 47.6%, while vinyl sales rose modestly. (Unsurprisingly the biggest rises overall were in paid streaming subscriptions.)

    So it seems the 21st-century music system now requires two music sources — some way to stream, and a turntable for playing vinyl. And you know what? We couldn’t be happier with that solution.

    We have readers in three different scenarios. Some

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