Vinyl sounds better (shots fired)

well cared for LP does last virtually forever

but you haven't had them forever, haven't lived forever, so I am not convinced 

@atmasphere sweet, very educational, thank you!

promises, com(promises)

forever forever....

we'll find out

for the record: (sorry)

• vinyl is a 100 year old technology
• even the machine that makes vinyl is half a century old
• it's just some rock bouncing on a plastic surface, how crude is that?
• streaming is way more advanced, in so many ways

so what was the question? If vinyl sounds better? Or who vinyl is for?

and also

@mylogic just to clarify, I listen to 80% vinyl. I am not anti-vinyl. I just don't want to convert anyone.  (the opposite, I want people to switch to streaming and sell me their vinyl collection)

@thecarpathian when was it not. Look at all the tariff and CA tax threads, it's bursting at the seams with love

@asvjerry  mine too!

@hifiguy42 +1

The relationship to music is different with vinyl. Ever since I got back into it, I learned a lot about each album, musician and discovered bands I would have never come across via streaming.

@billpete 

@rdmorgan048 I am so sorry, audigon, this powerful almighty flawless system does not let me respond. I jumped through hoops all morning and still, it prevents from new messages or replying to messages :(

- vastly more expensive for the same level of quality

             -> but it’s simply not, you can buy 100 record lots for a $100 or less.
- noisy

              -> that’s very vague, noisy how? Digital can be lossy, noisy, resampled, far from the original
- subject to wear and dirt

              -> exactly, it’s physical media, so you won’t depend on 100s of steps and things in the chain to play it
- inconvenient

             -> for me, it’s fun part, what is inconvenient to you, is the joy for me
- new recordings are not issued in vinyl 

              -> simply not true

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