Vinyl lovers I must be crazy

Orpheus 10,
Inna was being facetious; no need to blow the smoke...

The 70's system was a all vinyl system and my current system I strictly listen to Cd's. Is that the problem listening to CD's?

All the nostalgia aside, it seems you answered your own question. I remember one of the Stereophile reviewers stating that a correctly set up analog system will always beat a digital system, or something close to it. I don't have a problem with people enjoying their CDs, but for me personally, a digital system can NEVER be as enjoyable as analog so I don't subscribe to the "enjoy your music irrespective of the medium" camp. To me, my system and my music are one organic whole; one cannot exist without the other to provide ME with an enjoyable experience. My tube amp smells like music to me when it's on; the smell of hot tubes evokes a visceral sensation that I associate with listening to beautiful music. The organic sound of vinyl simply cannot be matched by CD, SACDs, or whatever else they come up with out there because digital's very existence is predicated on a flawed concept - it tries to reproduce what is a purely human creation. Perhaps I'm getting too philosophical here so here's my stance on the reason you don't like your CDs: the only way to truly experience music and fully appreciate its beauty is through analog playback. Digital playback should be left for boring work commutes and cleaning as background filler.

Orhpeus 10,
Just reading about your set-up makes me NEVER even want to try to replicate it. Part of the allure of the analog experience is the physical and tactile sensation of cuing the tonearm in and dropping the stylus onto the vinyl. And that's even before the sound comes. And when it does come, it cannot be replicated. Burning, ripping, converting, recording, processing, storing, etc., vinyl is as close to the analog experience as is licking ice cream through a glass window to tasting real ice cream. Stop licking the window and get the real ice cream, man!

Orpheus 10,
I don't know what an erector set is so perhaps you can share your experience with it for us. And if you're done waxing poetic about your 8000-c, whatever it is, why don't you stop hijacking the thread and take your musical tastes exchange to another thread devoted to the subject, or use PM? That'd be nice of you.