Vinyl sounds better (shots fired)

In response to @russbutton’s somewhat crotchety negative points about vinyl records, here are a few positives that come to mind:

• I can listen to vinyl records all night without fatigue
• There’s a vinyl club at my local pub
• We have great independent record shops in my region
• It’s one activity I share with my kids
• We always know what buy each other for Christmas and birthdays
• I enjoy the physicality and paraphernalia of records
• Vinyl records more often than not sound better than the equivalent digital formats

The truth is I need both vinyl and streaming. There’s a lot of good stuff in my local digital library. Also, streaming is excellent for exploring new music or checking out albums I don’t necessarily want to buy. But ultimately when comes to serious critical listening, vinyl wins hands down.

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Dear friends:  In this special audio topic: digital/analog is extremely impossible to have a fully in agree whole opinion.

Each of us are different and with diffrent audio history experiences, our room/audio systems overall reflects whom we are.

" having digital in the chain doesn’t appear to adversely affect the sound of vinyl.

The reason for our vinyl preference must lie elsewhere. "

yes and is just individual in each one of us and of what we are accustom too for all each one ofe us audio experiences and live MUSIC experiences.

As some of you and from some years now my main target with home MUSIC reproduction is just enjot the MUSIC in digital or vinyl/analog format. The my system fine tunning times already passed and today I'm not in a worry any more if the recording is digoital or analog: I enjoy both kind of media developed distortions. 

Yes  my room/system already fine tunned with a extreme low ( elsewhere ) distortion levels and very high resolution with a main approach to stay nearer to the playback original media LP/CD.

Btw, @atmasphere, in this thread and in the whole Agos forum the treads and post normally are in reference to what each one of us listen in our system during playback and not separates: recording/playback. At least when I talk/post about vinyl this intrinsecal implicate: playback , same for digital.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,

R.

@westcoastaudiophile  I get that and agree completely.  It's just that the price tag is significant.  A lot has to do with the original engineering and mastering.  Two excellent examples are:

The Arrival of Victor Feldman
Kind of Blue

The first was recorded BEFORE Kind of Blue and is superb, both musically and in the engineering.

Kind of Blue is important musically, but the engineering is awful.  Pay close attention to the sound of the bass player in both recordings and you'll understand what I'm saying.

The quality of the re-mastering has a lot to do with how good a digital release is.