‘Wax and Wane: The Tough Realities Behind Vinyl’s Comeback’

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‘Wax and Wane: The Tough Realities Behind Vinyl’s Comeback’

More and more people are buying vinyl; sales hit a record 6.1 million units in the U.S. last year. But as demand increases, the number of American pressing plants remains relatively fixed. No one is building new presses because, by all accounts, it would be prohibitively expensive. So the industry is limited to the dozen or so plants currently operating in the States. The biggest is Nashville’s United, which operates 22 presses that pump out 30,000 to 40,000 records a day.

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