Is vinyl dead ?

The die hards still hang on, but truth be told, you wont see vinyl on display at the big dealers any more.
Soundex still has an occasional static dislpay every now and then, Overture's has dropped it for a while ago. Digital is much better than it used to be. I'm sure this response will bring much hate mail, but sometimes the truth hurts.
I myself never could never accept the pos and hisses, too distracting, and for what, a disc that slowly degrades with each use.

Vader

It truly amazes me how many people felt personally attacked by my post, and felt the need to attack me and my system for whatever reasons. (which by the way sounds outstanding, and was completely matched before purchase.)
The dealers I work worth allow me to design and build a system in thier showroom for me to listen before I purchased each piece. When I consider un upgrade, I am allowed to bring each component to my home and evaluate it in my system first.
I was simply trying to point out that I shop in some of the bigger dealers (Soundex, Overtures and so on) and these guys never have a functional vinyl rig to listen to because of lack of demand. Also, if vinyl was so popular your larger music stores would still carry albums....they dont!
And for Dougdecan I guess I need to explain the seperation of analoge from vinyl I was talking about my amp/preamp vs my cd/dvd player or dac. I guess he dosnt have the common sense to figure that one out!

Twl, again you attack as if I know you personally. And you make too many assumptions. Look at my system, you think I cant afford a good if not great vinyl setup?
I choose not to. For many reasons. I have a life, I dont have time for fus with cleaning records, ajusting VTA, storing albums, and I really dont care for the sound! Not to mention most of the music I listen to is not available on vinyl. So why would I support a medium I cant listen to? I dont buy SACD's for the same reason and I like that format, but if I cant get software for it, what good is it to me? I live on the more detailed side of the coin, look at my equipment, my sonic taste is clear. So dont jam vinyl down my throat! And dont assume everyone likes it or that it is better. That is your opinion which you are entitled to.
But opinions are like assholes, evrybody has one and there seem to be a lot of both here.

I love all the opions from all these "experts" about how my system sounds when they never heard. As if I have to explain my decisions to anyone....Please!
This is not the community I signed up for.
If responding to threads is about being ripped apart and
attacked then consider this my last.

Dougdeacon, Apology accepted.
I never ment to get into the old pissing match between digital and vinyl. The sound quality was not what this thread was about. The thread is discussing the decline of popularity on vinyl, and i simply added my observations to reinforce this theory.

Vader