55 years old - I think digital sounds better, but I do like using vinyl because it's easy and fun, and vinyl sounds plenty good enough on a good turntable.
I and started getting my own stereo equipment at about age 11 - so about 1976 (paper route money). So my first big love was CASSETTES. And I still love that they allowed us to make our own mixes, most of which I did off the radio, because I had no other source!
In 1981 or so I got a decent turntable and I was immediately impressed with how much better it sounded than my rather inadequate cassette deck. I literally bought that turntable so I could borrow records just to make mixes with. I was planning to get a second cassette deck to make tape to tape dubs. There were no dual well tape decks at the time (that I knew of).
In 1988 or so I got a CD player. It didn't sound as good as my good (subsequent) turntable, but the next CD player certainly did. MP3s were bad, but even they are better now and FLAC is great.
I think good digital like CD or FLAC sounds best. I still prefer using vinyl records or CDs because disks are easy to deal with and fun, and I can own them, unlike so many of the songs in my streaming service playlists.
But I think digital above 128Kbps MP3 sounds best.
I and started getting my own stereo equipment at about age 11 - so about 1976 (paper route money). So my first big love was CASSETTES. And I still love that they allowed us to make our own mixes, most of which I did off the radio, because I had no other source!
In 1981 or so I got a decent turntable and I was immediately impressed with how much better it sounded than my rather inadequate cassette deck. I literally bought that turntable so I could borrow records just to make mixes with. I was planning to get a second cassette deck to make tape to tape dubs. There were no dual well tape decks at the time (that I knew of).
In 1988 or so I got a CD player. It didn't sound as good as my good (subsequent) turntable, but the next CD player certainly did. MP3s were bad, but even they are better now and FLAC is great.
I think good digital like CD or FLAC sounds best. I still prefer using vinyl records or CDs because disks are easy to deal with and fun, and I can own them, unlike so many of the songs in my streaming service playlists.
But I think digital above 128Kbps MP3 sounds best.