THE HAGUE — Rik Stoet High End Audio is the premier store for phonograph turntables in The Hague. Slightly north of the city’s main shopping district, it is a cosy, messy place that offers a choice of dozens of new record players, friendly but frank advice (“We don’t believe in USB ports”) and a cappuccino if you ask for one. In the back room are thousands of vinyl discs for those with time to linger.

It is a place where customers can spend as much as 8,000 euros, or $9,962, for a turntable in stock — and up to €100,000 for a customized order. Frits de Korte, a veteran salesman in the store, says he has noticed a resurgence in the popularity of vinyl records and the machines that make them sing.

“It has always been a niche market, but it hasn’t stopped growing,” he said, pointing to the many turntables lining the walls.

It is not only those who still pine for the golden age of vinyl who are buying, but also those too young to remember a time when recorded music was routinely stored on a physical medium. Now that digital music has become ubiquitous, listeners have started to miss the physical aspects long associated with recorded music, said Paul Rigby, a music journalist who reviews turntables for the magazine Hi-Fi World.