Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl

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 As an engineer I know that vinyl is a hugely outdated and compromised format that requires electronic acrobatics just to get a flat frequency response before you even think about minimising the noise getting 200µV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.   

Why do YOU love vinyl?

The question is a little odd, isn’t it? I mean, does anyone really love vinyl? Vinyl is noisy, fragile, inconvenient. Vinyl forces you to either listen to the songs in the order they are on the record, or get up and change tracks. Remote vinyl? No such thing. The very best vinyl, Better Records Hot Stampers, are insanely expensive. Or the 45s, again have you jumping up and down all the time.

With vinyl you have to have a masters in physics, geometry, and engineering just to set one up. Oh, enough jigs and meters and test records to fill a mad-scientists laboratory.

Then also with vinyl you have to put up with all the looks and comments from people who "know" you must have a screw loose, or be some kind of troglodyte with nostalgia for the good old days that never were. Or if its not that then the ones who "know" it doesn’t measure, its not "high-rez", and what you really love is "distortion".

Okay, I guess maybe you could love vinyl, at least a little, because you know that in spite of all that it is the one true audiophile Gold Standard, the one digital is always being said to be "like". The highest compliment ever paid any digital anything always seems to be, analog-"like". Which tells you right there they all know (really know, not the fake scare quotes "know") which one is really The One.

But even that is kind of weak, nowhere near enough to make me, or probably anyone else, really love vinyl.

No. Sorry.

Dunno about anyone else, but what I love is music. Just absolutely love it. Always have. Probably always will. And the better it sounds, the more I love it. Which, unfortunately for me, nothing else makes music sound better than vinyl.