Vinyl sounds better (shots fired)

@newton_john 

I briefly entertained the idea of replacing old vinyl records with new Cd's, probably sometime in the 90's, not sure when. I soon found that the new Cd's that I would buy, had somehow lost a great deal of the original information (music). It didn't take me long to give up on the idea. Lucky for me, I have never gotten rid of a single album/LP. Some got destroyed by pets or kids but I never intentionally got rid of them. I will never regret that decision. 

There was a brief time when records had fallen out of favor. You would be hard pressed to even find a cartridge for your turntable. I was a bit shocked by this but after maybe 10 years or so of that nonsense, it started popping up everywhere. Funny how that goes.

I do not stream but from what people say about it, I am convinced that it can be very good. It can only be as good as whatever source they had in the first place and I don't know if it can equal an original master tape or not. The digital format should be truly unlimited as to it's capabilities so maybe it will someday replace all other sources. I do not know. It will not replace it in my home. I may add it someday but I'm in no hurry. I still buy Cd's and albums all the time. Cd's (Sony?) chose to limit to 20hz to 20khz. I have no idea why. Easier?, all we can hear anyway? They are also limited by the bit/sample rate. SACD was better but didn't catch on for whatever reason. Streaming is the answer for a lot of people as to the enormous library and you don't have to store records or cd's somewhere. It is good enough so that people are able to compare one record pressing or cd or whatever to another. This is what we used to do over on the vinyl asylum all the time and was how we would learn which pressings to look for. I'm impressed that streaming is able to capture that. Some Cd's are much better than others as well but they are never quite what the best vinyl copy was. It's not up to me, it's just how it is. 

@newton_john I've never had a person take "the vinyl test" and come away a digital fan. I take a vinyl and a CD of s piece of music, and start the test with a listen to the vinyl. Then comes the digital version. Every time, I watch with amusement as the first few bars of digital pseudo-reproduction are heard and their expression turns from confusion to dislike. The comments are always the same: "The first one sounded so open and alive, and the second sounded like it was coming from a box." 

@mambacfa keep writing and please post something on YouTube, to make $$$ LOL!

"delusional people with more money than brains” - it’s about enjoyment, not efficiency!

If I am listening to classical music, I find vinyl replays it closer to how it sounds in Meyershoff, Carnegie or David B. Geffen halls. The way the music "billows" as it does in real life is more apparent to me with my turntable than with my digital setup, and that's any digital setup I've had for the past 35 years. And jazz as well.

If I'm playing pop music, digital is okay and I don't find myself comparing the sounds of different formats. So much pop music (my collection is mainly records from the 40s through to the 90s) was so mediocre - even when remastered - that I accept the sound that's there. 

@gbmcleod

When I was learning to play guitar, I listened to a lot of pre war country blues all the way back to Charlie Patton on tape and later CD copied from old 78s. It’s amazing how the performances can sometimes transcend the limitations of those old analogue recordings.