CDs Vs LPs

I have LPs pressed in the early 1950s that play just fine too. One example (Benny Goodman) is 65 years old and still plays fine.

The Library of Congress did an archival study in the mid 1980s that suggested that laminated media like CDs would last decades while amorphous media like LPs and LP stampers would last centuries (all heavily dependent on quality of storage of course). I think I would be bored to death of the cut by then though.

I feel like we are blessed to have all the different types of media at our disposal. We are in a golden age of audio. CD has a lower noise floor and superior attack for sure but it's an error by omission format. Vinyl costs allot to execute properly and forces you to be involved in the presentation therefore it errors on the side of commission. I love streaming for it's convenience and discovering new music....what a great thing it is but at the end of the day I gotta go with CD. 

Lps  vpi tnt sme309 and here’s the key van den hull colibri xgp it digs things out of that piece of vinyl that HAVE ALLWAYS BEEN THERE if you don’t believe me come on over I’ll show you . It has allways has amazed me analog that was created 100+ years ago sounds better than present technology. By the way I went from a Benz ruby to the corlibri and was baffled by the change.

It has allways has amazed me analog that was created 100+ years ago sounds better than present technology.

OK....that is just a silly statement.  Do a little research on how records were produced in 1918.

Couple of things.

I agree that getting excellent sound from vinyl costs more and takes more time and fiddling to attain. The low level signals from the cartridge are prone to interference and lots of cable dressing and such to eliminate hums can be necessary, and if you have the wrong phono preamps etc. you can have issues that can sometimes only be solved by replacement.

You can attain a good sounding digital rig for a fraction of what the analogue front end costs you, and that added to the convenience factor (I listen to almost all my digital from FLAC files on a server) means that analogue will remain a minority pastime.

When a well recorded album is played on a properly set up analogue rig, it can sound very good indeed and it can be pretty much silent in the background.  I recently played the 1971 Neil Young at Massey Hall LP to a find who works in pro audio and he asked if it was a CD as the background was so quiet.  One shouldn't condemn all vinyl just because your records came from a garage sale and you don't own a decent record cleaning machine.

If the recording chain is less than perfect, it doesn't matter much whether it is analogue or digital - crap is crap and I have listened to quite a few relatively recent remastered digital releases that are inferior to older releases of the same material.

This is all an interesting discussion, but I don't think it leads to any conclusions. Some analogue is excellent and a lot of digital is as well (more today that in the early days, for sure).  You can choose to champion one or the other exclusively, or you can choose my course, which is to enjoy both without any set preconceptions going in.