Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"

This is so far down the food chain it may never be read but..a man much wiser than I explained this phenomenon in this way. Think of a tape recorded piece of music as a loaf of bread. Digital conversion cut that loaf into many slices. Crumbs fall away and no matter how hard you try to reassemble that loaf of bread there will still be missing pieces. Vinyl uses the whole loaf (tape), it may be manipulated and colored and enhanced in many ways, but in the end the loaf is still complete, all the bytes are there to enjoy. 

That was fun (the slices of bread analogy). I should qualify it as being an explanation given to me back in the mid-late 80's. My first digital player was of the single laser type. The sound was horrible. In addition, early CDs were digitized copies of LPs. I still have some where the jewel box art was a picture of an album cover, complete with ringwear! You could even hear a few pops and clicks from the vinyl they were copied from. We've come a long way baby. If the instrument isn't live in your ear, all reproduced sounds differ in some way from the original source. I'm going back to my sourdough toast now, "different strokes for different folks" (Sly Stone). AB