Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital


I have not bought a vinyl record since CDs came out, but have been exposed to numerous claims that vinyl is better.  I suspect jazz may be best placed to deliver on these claims, so I am looking for your recommendations.

I must confess that I do not like trad jazz much.  Also I was about to fork out A$145 for Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" but bought the CD for A$12 to see what the music was like.  I have kept the change!

I love the jazz in the movie Babylon, which features local Oz girl Margo Robbie (the film, not the jazz).

So what should I buy?

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well that used to be the case but not anymore not with the DACs that have come out in the last few years, check out the Wyred4sound 10th anniversary DAC, one of the reviewers put it up against his VPI turntable with a $5,000 Japanese cartridge on it and he said that the 10th anniversary DAC was every bit as an analog sounding, on that review I bought it and I totally agree this DAC is very warm sounding but yet detailed but not analytical and they also give you a 30-day trial. I obviously didn't return it, it's the best DAC I've had in my system and it has gone up against DACs 2 to 3 times the price and it's beat them.

People here are putting out wrong info. Whether vinyl sounds better than digital, is related to the mastering of both. If the vinyl is mastered very well but the digital not so much, the vinyl will sound better on a good system no matter how good your dac is. Vice versa applies as well

All things being equal I prefer the sound of vinyl. I have a pretty good digital system, probably better than my vinyl system, but I just like the vinyl sound better. Maybe that’s just my ears or maybe that’s what I grew up with 

I stream more than I play vinyl because it is so convenient and the sound difference is not huge. In any event, it’s impossible for someone to definitively say what will sound better to another person.. It’s entirely subjective, and your experience may be different than mine. You have to listen for yourself and everyone’s ears are different. Some may not perceive a different sound, but that doesn’t mean it’s true for everybody.
Isn’t that what we tell Amir all the time?

I like the MMW albums. Not expensive. The Jordan Hamilton is really good too. Project Freedom shines both streaming and vinyl. When the mood is right, nothing beats vinyl for me. Mindfulness or something. Shuteen Erdenebaatar’s album Rising Sun was streaming well before it was pressed. I did preorder. It’s gotta have 15 spins by now. I listen to jazz better on vinyl, even if it’s a budget unit. I hope that helps. 

Almost anything by the Esbjorn Svenson Trio, particularly the live albums