BorisValdes42

If it's an clean vinyl, without any scratches or broken areas then it will sound better than ANY mp3 and most of the CD's. It's just a different technology and the sound is fuller, richer ...I use mainly vinyls for listening, making beats for sale and for sampling.

Jaquecusto

Vinyl lost the race to CDs due to its practicality. In fact, the cassette tape itself (with very limited sound) conquered part of the vinyl market due to its practicality. Now, the pen drive has taken over the CD's space for the same reason. High Fidelity Sound, no more.

jadis

I'm not an audiophile and never had the money for vinyl anyway but sometimes I really wish to hear certain records in that format. For example Can's song Future days

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vittra

i’ve always preferred cds, but i feel like some albums are suitable in different formats.

Drjohnrock

I agree. I prefer cds because unlike vinyl, I’ve rarely had to return a new cd because it was defective. Also, they are more durable than vinyl if properly cared for, and nowadays cost much less than vinyl. But yeah, some recordings sound better on other formats. The Pixies’ Come On Pilgrim ep explodes out of the speakers on vinyl, but didn’t come across as well to me when I first heard it on cd.

jadis

One thing CD's got going for it is all those special reissues with liner notes. Or just albums that came out with liner notes the first time around. I liked some of those.

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Rexorcist

OP totally answered the question: spirituality. It's the idea that you share a similarity with the prophets of old, the forebearers of our philosophies, the teenagers in the 60's who were there for the age of albums to finally overtake the mainstream. It's the feeling that we have a great respect for an essential early factor in musical history.

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.

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