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The format that refuses to disappear.
Vinyl should have been finished off by the CD in 1983. Then by MP3 in 1999. Then by streaming in 2010. It survived all three because a record player in a room playing music is a fundamentally different experience from a file being decoded by an algorithm and pushed through a phone speaker.
The groove is physical. The needle is physical. The amplification is physical. The room the sound moves through is physical. VinylPickup exists for people who understand why that matters and for people who are starting to suspect it might.
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