What is so special about Vinyls anyway? ;)

[StarFrog]

In a world where so much is vying for our attention, I'm finding the return to the intentionality and slower-pace of physical media to be such a breath of fresh air. Like you said, it's about the ritual of it, and for me it has made music fun in a way it hasn't been in a long time...

As far as sound quality goes, I don't think there is an objective superiority to vinyl in the modern age.

[Drjohnrock]

[QUOTE=StarFrog;2243398]In a world where so much is vying for our attention, I'm finding the return to the intentionality and slower-pace of physical media to be such a breath of fresh air. Like you said, it's about the ritual of it, and for me it has made music fun in a way it hasn't been in a long time...

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Well said.

Welcome to Music Banter, Star Frog. What music are you into?

[ChefBrunch]

CD's and digital beat vinyl 95% of the time, the 5% that vinyl wins is pure audio magic.

sometimes the distortions inherent to the format are a net gain to they way it sounds..the phase shifting lends itself to a more 3d image...maybe its just distortion, but sometimes its a benefit that matches with the music in a positive way.

You really need a pretty substantial Vinyl playback system to really get out of vinyl all that is possible....were talking near a $1k cartridge and a $1k phono preamp just for starters, maybe about $2k into a decent turntable...now some highly revealing speakers $5k add some subwoofers $2k and a poweramp $2k add a good preamp $1k

until you really hear a perfect clean highly dynamic perfect press and recording LP on a system like this in the $20k all in range , your not really hearing what is Vinyls potential...

with CD's and digital it's $10k cheaper to get there...but Digital will never beat the Vinyl in absoulute sound quality. but it wins 95% of the time.

[mattrixs]

Vinyl is goregous!!!!

[BADGUD]

I'm from the CD/DVD generation, I might start a little vinyl collection soon. I've always heard you can hear the difference