How do you respond to this question?

because, I bought a turntable, spent a lot of money and time going out to used events and stores finding awesome vinyl records. Then I had to get a cartridge then another one then another one. Bought a Phono preamp, stylus brush, cleaner and a record washer, plastic covers and sleeves a whole new shelving system to store vinyl....its a wonder I have a wife! (I need to go order some flowers)

Because it just sounds better, simple as that.

Good Listening

Peter

because i started with Vinyl back in 1970. I have owned 8 tracks, cassettes,cd and mp3, but i still have the first album i purchased and still play it. i know a lot of people complain about clicks and pops but i have kept my records clean and all of my own purchased new vinyl is very quiet. so, why listen, answer, i always have listened to vinyl. It a habit

All good answers, especially Czarivey's. But I'm reminded of the answer bank robber Willie Sutton gave when asked why he robbed banks: Because that's where the money is. I bought LP's for over twenty years before ever seeing a CD (in '87), and didn't join those who got rid of them and replaced them with the 5" silver discs. I had about 5,000 LP's by then, and wasn't about to do that, especially as I wasn't sold on CD's. I kept buying LP's for as long as record companies made them, which one-by-one they stopped doing, releasing new albums on CD only. My answer to the question is because that's where the (my) music is.

Some of it, anyway. I didn't stop buying new music when LP's stopped being made, and joined the rest of music consumers, starting my second collection. Being the Indi CD buyer at a Tower store (the only record store chain with buyers in each store, buying for that store only) for awhile enabled me to amass quite a music library for literally nothing. Buyers are given a copy of just about every new release (including reissues of old albums), and my music room was eventually over-flowing with somewhere around 10,000 of the damn things! I now pay for new CD's by trading in some of those promos at Amoeba Records, an incredible 3-store mini-chain here in California. The trade-in product manager at the Hollywood store is one of my former sales reps, and some of my trade-ins are promos he gave me as his Tower buyer!

Because I trust my cats.

... when I play vinyl, they scatter in fright at sudden musical sounds, then peer out from beneath the sofa - tails fluffed - searching for those scary instruments that have invaded their room.

... when I play a digital source, no matter how loudly or what instruments are supposedly being portrayed, they sleep straight through it.