THE POWER OF STEAM The Vinyl Manufacturing Process In September 2020 it was announced that sales of vinyl had outstripped CDs for the first time since 1987. In an age where digital devices have taken over, it’s comforting for so many of us to recognise that a one hundred and fifty-year-old mechanical sound reproduction process is still making an impression on increasing numbers of today’s music fans. In many record plants, even today, pressing vinyl is quite literally a steam...