Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl


I just responded to the thread on how many sources do you have ( shotgunning tonight) and got me wondering why I love vinyl so much? Have a very good digital side on both my main system and my headphone system as well that was set up for Redbook playback (headphone system) only utilising my vast 1,000 CD collection, enjoyed it for about a year, added a turntable and haven't used it since. My love of vinyl has been with me for 55 years, buying and playing, setting up my tables , matching preamps and enjoying the fruit of my labor. I believe my love of vinyl is a simple one, it stemmed from the hands on, need to tinker and adjust that I was born with, it's a very physical attraction that I just can not resist, it satisfies a lot of needs for me and in some way is that mistress that I maintain. My turntable is massive and so easy to look at, I can touch it and get more out of it, I can read about the artist and get info while I listen to an album, I can swap out a cartridge and change the tone and in the day the album covers served as a rolling tray to roll a joint. I love vinyl, but absolutely understand while others don't. I also envy people like uberwaltz that have and use so many sources, wish I could. What say you?
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Simple for me. I love the music. Grew up in the golden years of vinyl. Music , much of which either isn't available or isn't available in a quality digital offering vs the original sin. I procured a very large number of albums when others were selling for pennies on the promise of perfect sound forever. I never experienced the noise on the level some digitites over emphasize it at all playing vinyl.
Digital is very good now, finally, but when you already have the music on the original media, with the original recording to do so....it's not really about nostalgia. It's about the music. At least it is for me. 

Thats why I have a pretty good digital playback for all the music released digitally in recent years.
Both are great....I just feel more emotion in the music on vinyl. If some think that's nostalgia so be it...but I know it's the emotion and dynamic drive in the music vinyl has for me. Me personally, .......I've always believed none of us hear the same let alone the same preferences aural or visually. Choice is great, don't knock it, be glad you can have it.....

Why I love vinyl: (1) It reminds me of being a teenager in the 1970s and working my butt off to buy my first turntable, receiver and speakers. That work ethic helped pave a blessed road for me throughout life. It's a nice memory that I reinforce when that turntable starts spinning; (2) Most of the time vinyl sounds more cohesive to me than the same recording that has been remastered for digital; and (3) It requires you to pay attention to the music--you will be getting up and flipping that record--and that means you probably will not get distracted from the listening.
Why I hate vinyl: (1) It has me relying on people far away from me to properly grade their used vinyl that is for sale online--I've been burned, but I'm hunting the best copies I can find so I endure this reality; (2) The clicks and pops are real and distract from the listening experience--vinyl folks that deny this fact are romantics IMO; and (3) the fragility of the equipment--better be careful with that cartridge; better be careful with that tonearm. This stuff breaks if you are not careful--wait, it actually breaks even when you are careful.   
Denying noise , better yet never experiencing the over emphasized claims some experienced is not romanticism for some at all. 
The environment both played and stored in matters, the condition of the equipment and set up matters, whether the vinyl was cleaned properly before use matters, humidity matters, cartridge choice matters, proper grounding matters, the previous users bad habits matter on handling and playing matters as is the play the whole side vs. the selective needle dropper. All these things can magnify or minimize the noise to near nothing.
I whole heartily agree the condition far away sellers use can be disheartening. I buy these days from a couple trusted who sell play graded..
Definitely not a medium for the ham fisted or clumsy , and quite more expensive to do these days. If someone asked me that didn't  already have a good collection of clean vinyl....I would recommend they look elsewhere. I respect that some experience more noise than others, ive witnessed it ,..but that doesn't change the fact some of us experience far lower noise floors playing vinyl. Actually digital has a gap for black background from brand to brand as well. 
Bottom line....vinyl certainly does have more pitfalls, costs and efforts than any other....but when it shines...it almost sounds as good as reel to reel....oops. ...another war...
  1. @has2be , @astewart8944, great points, all of them. In my particular situation I am using 800 albums purchased by me thru the 60s,70s & 80s and I have been able to quench my cravings for new music with purchasing only new albums to which I have added another 1,000 albums after culling, so the shape of my collection is as close to pristine as humanely possible. Tried the used market and got very discouraged quickly abandoning it for CDs instead.