What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital?

Maybe, but I’m 45 this year and I sold all my CDs in the early 90’s and since that time I don’t have anything but vinyl/turntables in my system and keep searching and buying OG records all the time (if i’m not completely broke).

You were what, 16 in 1990. You sold all your CDs by the time you turned 18?  Me thinks the tale you tell is tall.

So, what we have is an argument over what color is best in an unknown décor. Seems sort of silly doesn't it?

It is silly, but you still have people arguing unequivocally that their color is best, not even knowing the decor (music). I listen to both. I say real audiophiles understand the recording far more defines the outcome than the format.

I would trip the stand and break it in the first few weeks. Putting 55" of glass on an easy to trip over stand does not make me say "I gotta have it" :-).  Is the screen white when it is off or do I now have Wall color, white, black instead of wall color, black?

The room acoustical bad controls of most users reinforce the choice of vinyl because vinyl S.Q. format resist more to a non optimal acoustical room settings...Digital to shine ASK for optimal acoustical controls more than vinyl, because of the technical aspect and measured potential performance of this format...

Please allow me to rephrase for you Mahgister, because what you wrote is potentially import (even though this thread didn't ask what people like).


The are unique properties in what we could call the signal processing of vinyl, whether that is channel cross talk, increasing distortion at frequency extremes, added noise, etc.  Some of those, like crosstalk, could be conducive, in poor acoustic environments (most audiophiles rooms) to higher satisfaction. Similarly, the distortion and background noise can give a sense of space, or even realism that some may find lacking in digital.  What are perceived flaws, can be an advantage, both overall, and for particular listeners.

Judging by pictures, only a small amount of systems have anything but the most basic treatments, and only a small percentage have serious acoustics.  This is supposed to be the pinnacle of high end. I have always felt that is why all the tweaks. It is just different colors of the same wrong.