Why organ music


I have a nice ss - CD set up that satisfies me most of the time, but am re-tasting LP's. The one kind if music that always sounds much better to me on LP, even with my very modest LP system is organ music. I used to play organ myself. But I also play piano and can relish well recorded piano on CD. To me, organ on CD is very hard to listen to. Anyone have idea why I notice such a difference with organ versus other instruments?
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The organ has an abundance of harmonics. Organs can all sound different depending on the pipe designs. Perhaps there is something about the harmonic content from vinyl that improves the organ sound in the direction of your taste(usually greater than CD because Vinyl uses a mechanical vibrating system to read the music).

More harmonics sounds richer or fuller....tubes do this too and many speakers add harmonics too, harmonics are pretty much a fact of life.

Another possibility is distortion; all distortion is ugly and organ music requires oodles of power so it is a candidate for distortion...could you be overdriving your system with a CD compared to Vinyl? Just a thought....