CD's or Vinyl?

Vinyl all the way! I’ve had more than a few CD players but none have sounded better than a LP on a good analog setup. I don’t have a CD player anymore, but streamed hi-rez is sounding really good these days. Close to analog. Most of my records are pre 1980 and all analog, and I try to buy all analog reissues or new music when I do buy.

On a blind test in my house of stereo, you would be hard pressed to differentiate CDs form vinyl. My vinyl collection is much larger than the CD one, so between the two it would be vinyl. However streaming wins it most of the time since that's at least 80 plus % of my listening. Variety is the spice of life.

Hello all, 

We enjoy both vinyl and cd sources.  I have a superb system that I’ve assembled over many years including tube and ss components. As to preference for which media source it depends what mood that we are in at the time.  Sometimes we spin CD’s and sometimes vinyl.  To us the source is secondary to enjoyment of the sounds.  Let me add that much of our vinyl is classic jazz and cds are more classic rock.  We have a 50/50 split of classical performances on cd and vinyl.  Let me add that my vinyl is enjoyed via tube equipment and cds via solid state electronics. But occasionally I’ll switch it up just because:)  So I guess I did not help much as to which is better. Enjoy the music. 

I prefer listening to music, to the performance.  Vinyl is a bit better but I enjoy music on either medium.

Vinyl for me, if I was forced to pick just one. I like the larger size for the album art and I've got a great analog system... But I really like both, and there are some great CD box sets that will never be available on vinyl.