They are big, bulky and hold an average of only 12 songs, unlike that tiny, sleek portable MP3 player that can contain up to 40,000 tunes.

Yet the trusty old analogue format of vinyl records has attracted a new generation of young music fans.

Take undergraduate Wilfred Wong, 23. He was still a toddler when vinyls lost their position as the prime musical format in the mid-1980s, overtaken by smaller and then-newer formats such as cassettes and CDs.

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