Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl

I’ve enjoyed reading this thread. I definitely love playing vinyl records. Like others it is a mix of nostalgia, the physical process, the beautiful record covers to read while I listen, the hunt for old vinyl in the record shops, and the beautiful music that LPs can produce.
But honestly it mainly comes down to two things for me.
One is that with an LP it makes me relax into the music more, I am less distracted, I play the whole record, and I feel more like I am at a concert and in the audience. The process of playing a side of an LP naturally discourages skipping tracks or repeating tracks. It encourages me to instead put on the LP, sit down, and relax for 20-60mins with beautiful music, just like I would if I went to a concert.
Two is that I love classical music recorded in the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s. The recording engineers at the time really knew how to properly capture a performance and make it feel like you are in the audience (not the engineer in the recording booth). And the best way to get these recordings is on the original vinyl LPs from that era. Plus there are so many wonderful musicians, performances and recordings from that time that only exist on LP. And it is really fun to go hunting for records and finding new performances.
If I have any kvetching to do, it is less about vinyl vs non-vinyl and more to do with the esthetic of modern recording engineers and producers. Back in the 60s/70s the target was speakers with a record player in a front room and people who wanted to feel like they have performers in the living room and the engineer/producers were masters at that esthetic. Now it seems like the target is headphone listeners who want to hear all the details and feel like they are the producer or in the recording studio.

fleschler

The mastering of the format is generally the key to great sound.

You've hit the nail on the head for me. As an engineer I know that vinyl is a hugely outdated and compromised format that requires electronic acrobatics just to get a flat frequency response before you even think about minimising the noise getting 200µV up to a healthy line level.
But I love it and will always choose to listen to a vinyl recording over a digital one.
My theory for which I have no real evidence whatsoever is that the format stops the mastering engineer from compressing the hell out of a track. It's well known that if you play a song through a hi-fi and then play it again a fraction louder e.g. 1/2 -1 dB then subjectively you'll prefer the second listening. I believe this trick has been used by many an unscrupulous snake oil salesman in listening tests. So when the mastering engineer comes to master for digital then he/she knows the song will end up back to back with some other artists work in a playlist. The temptation to increase the compression (and subjective loudness) to make the track 'pop' will be hard to resist. 
A recording needs to be specifically mastered for vinyl, if it weren't then a lot of digital masters would make the stylus pop straight out of the groove and skid across the surface. And no vinyl lover minds turning up a bit to compensate for a quiet recording, so there's no motive for the mastering engineer to go mad with the compression.
Even if I'm wrong, I can't help liking vinyl with all its flaws... as the British radio DJ, John Peel said 'Listen mate, life has surface noise'.

Can't say I like the vinyl record but have grown from it a long time ago. Why get stuck in a few piles of vinyl when a whole world of music is in front of your feet and just wait for you to discover new wonderful music that Streaming offers.
I'm not going to sit in front of a vinyl record player, life is too short for this :)

I have Chord Qutest DAC. It sounds great.
But it can't match vinyl in term of tone, live dynamics, and general musicality. 
But I understand why many people don't hear advantages of analog sound. The problems are: transistor amplifiers and dull, low sensitive speakers. Most Hi-End systems don't translate a real instrument tones and most of audiophiles ton't care about tone.

My records are played on a Pro-Ject 2Experience TT with a Sumiko Blue Point #2 cartridge and a Pro-Ject Phono Box 2 @ $1600 all together in 2005. I play my digital music through a Bluesound Vault($750Music Direct demo)  music server, using an Oppo 105 ($1200) as a DAC.  I have some albums where I own the record, CD(burned to the Bluesound) and a High Res file downloaded on the Bluesound. I have NEVER had anyone say they like the sound of the digital files better than the analog. The High Res files come close. Some say they are not sure if one actually sounds better but the records are nicer to listen to. That being said the convenience of the Bluesound server can't be beat. To be honest nostalgia may play a part in liking albums more, my friends at work ALWAYS complain that I almost never listen to anything from this century. Mostly true with the exception of Lake Street Dive and Leon Bridges. Bottom line ENJOY THE MUSIC.