Anyone listen to entire albums?

One reason I went to digital is I can skip around and make a playlist of my choise

also digital has advanced so much in the last few years if you cover all bases 

starting with a good LPS power supply from your router,

high quality Ethernet cables and a very Good Ethernet switch ,and possibly filter depending on the brand with good quality power cords ,

then a good streamer and Dac then you have a digital that is as good and in several ways better , a record can only produce true 12 bit, digital true 20 bit.

Bass is for sure one’s lower tighter, S/N ratio , Distortion much quieter,

land having natural warmth and realism . Over $10k for sure 

but the same can be said too for a quality vinyl setup,

and I can store everything on a SS drive ,stream millions of songs , make play lists of every type , no cleaning involved . I am half way there .visiting audio clubs I get to hear Audio systems of all types. Beung 65 I just don’t have the patience anymore .I had several thousand 1st pressings and album art . Vinyl is still very good and master recordings sound great,but very limited in availability .

to each their own , if you have the patience and $$ then having both is a great solution.

Vinyl First listener here (90%)…so I often listen to a full album but usually, maybe half the time, only my favourite side. (After having admitting to that…) I recently asked one of the Younger members (mid 30’s) of our local “Vinyl Club” why he liked to hang around us Old Guys (most in our 60’s). His answer was “because you guys listen to the whole side or album, like the material was intended to be heard”. Obviously he was referring to “older” music (Jazz/Rock/Classical) but I found that shocking. He went on to explain/complain that all the age appropriate audio/music friends he had drove him Nuts… changing songs constantly and worse, playing 10 second lines and segments of song Constantly… 

He also said we had better stereos too… 

I was just laughing to myself about this. Went to change tracks yesterday, forgetting it was an LP.

LP’s, usually all the way thru, and I definitely want the original order. I like extra tracks as long as they are added at the end (CD or LP).

Recently I have been playing specific/favorite/revealing LP’s to hear the differences of new/re-discovered speaker positioning/toe-in.

added a virtual system about positioning/toe-in recently

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I realized that forgetting it’s an LP would never happen unless my new to me SACD/CD player didn’t sound so good (Sony xa5400es)

I am re-discovering my SACD/CDs, actually buying used CD’s of artists I re-discover or new artists I learn about. (hadn’t bought a CD in many years until recently).

CD: I skip tracks I know I don’t like, I play specific tracks for friends, specific tracks to enjoy alone, and specific tracks to hear any difference when evaluating a change.

LP’s, if evaluating, I wait for those most revealing tracks.

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I and my friends always prefer LPs to CD’s and always prefer Reel to Reel to LPs. Never a doubt. The preference of LP’s to CDs has narrowed now.

Thinking of Mike Pinder’s recent death, I just bought a sealed LP of one of my all time favorite albums, the Moody Blues, Go Now, their 1st album when they were a piano based blues band, before Justin Hayward’s era.

So, I will be having a CD/LP/Reel to Reel session soon.

Turned out: the sealed LP I bought has a sticker "Crazy Eddie, $3.99" on it, what a memory.

Agree with everything except the "one sitting" part....I abandoned vinyl because you can't hear an entire album without getting up, all after the ritual cleaning before - only to wash rinse repeat for album #2.

Digital allows listening to the album(s) in truly "one sitting" :-)

I'm retired, so absolutey. Listening to the entire album, or entire side in case of vinyl is the best way to get the message of the artist on a particular album. At least that applies to all artists worthy of that word. However nowadays many pop artists don't put much thought into their music as it is mostly made at the command of the producers to produce hits. But I don't bother listening to those.