CDs Vs LPs

Vinyl sounds better to me, assuming you have a better than average turntable/cartridge/ phono stage, and a good LP. CDs and CD players have come a long way since they first came out. I enjoy both.

Audiophiles would be happier if CD players required as much tweaking as TT's to obtain optimal SQ!

I’m a hair-shirt, dyed in the wool vinyl guy. When vinyl was declared dead, I bought bags and bags of old records, cut outs and the like everywhere I went. (I travelled a lot for business back then). I did not like the sound of the CD when it was introduced. But, I’ve gradually warmed to it for several reasons, including access to music for which original pressings are now unobtanium (and no good reissue exists), records that were only released on CD and because that format is now dying, you can find stuff for nothing- sometimes very good masterings. By contrast, a lot of older vinyl is way over priced and inaccurately graded.
I’m just starting to assemble a digital front end in my main system for the first time. (Sure, I’ve had systems in the house and car that used CD, but I didn’t regard it as highly fidelous). Now, even without spending what I did to assemble a top notch analog front end, I am getting very good sound from many silver discs. I guess I’m an obsoletist.
I’ve lived through all the arguments over the years, and despite the fact that I write about vinyl (and seek out old good LP pressings), digital has a place in my world now.
I’m also having great fun learning about it. All the issues associated with digital playback are things I’ve basically ignored, so I’m on a steep learning curve and enjoy the research.
One thing I did find pretty quickly- big differences in different "pressings" probably due to mastering.
Enjoy what you can while you can-life is too short, and there’s lot’s out there to experience and enjoy.

CDs by far. CDs have much greater dynamic range, and don't have pops and tics. Plus the arguments about analog vs digital are nonsense. There is no difference in audible reproduction between the two methods (except for the much greater dynamic range of a CD).

I've owned and collected both. But didn't buy my first CD until the fall of '91. And my first player until the summer of '92! I wasn't impressed with CD playback quality until then! And I heard the first CD player available in America in '83 - the Hitachi vertical loader. Not impressed! After all, I already had near-sota LP playback for years! Which set a pretty high bar for SQ! And still does! So by '92 I had my first of many players and I started buying many CD's (mostly used!). But I remained faithful to my LP collection - and to this day still prefer it over digital playback!