Vinyl sounds better (shots fired)

@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.

@billpete 

I kept my LP records all the way through the barren CD era, then added to them and upgraded my turntable during the vinyl revival. Yet I made the silly mistake of selling my turntable to improve the digital side about six years ago. I said before this was a head over heart decision. My former dealer and friend advised against it because he'd done the same thing himself only to return later.

Of course, it wasn't irreversible because I still had my precious and mainly pristine LPs stored lovingly in flight boxes. Then I did a really stupid thing and sold my collection for a tenth of what it would cost to buy again. I didn't really think it through properly. We were moving house to downsize at the time and I had a major operation just a couple weeks before. I was desperate to cast off possessions before the move.

It turned out that I couldn't live without vinyl despite having a top notch streaming setup. Now I've got another turntable, I regret so much the decision to ditch my records. Nevertheless, I am really enjoying accumulating more.