If you’re looking for vinyl records that sound better than streaming, it’s a great time to be a music fan. For years, executives wondered how big the vinyl business could get — I remember being told it would peak soon in 2014, when the format accounted for $315 million in U.S. revenue, according to the RIAA, or 6.5% of the recorded music business. (Last year vinyl brought in $1.4 billion, or 7.9% of the U.S. total, just under the size of the U.S. Latin business.) For years, labels had a hard time just producing enough vinyl to meet demand. Now that these issues are sorted out, however, they are turning their attention to making better — and more expensive — vinyl.

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