Vinyl sounds better (shots fired)

Vinyl is a true analogue, not a digital approximation. "Vinyl sounds better than digital" is an indisputable fact, because it is true sound, not a computer-generated facsimile. 

I always thought that audiophiles were a weird-looking bunch.

Without Vinyl there’s no fun in shopping for phono stages. …just sayin’. 

@mambacfa 

I agree with you in as far as that vinyl usually sounds better than digital formats or at least I prefer it.

However, it’s not true that digital is an approximation. It can exactly reproduce the original waveform of the music on reconstruction. In any case, having digital in the chain doesn’t appear to adversely affect the sound of vinyl.

The reason for our vinyl preference must lie elsewhere.

I would like to throw Direct Metal Mastering (DMM) into the discussion. Harsher or more accurate than cutting lacquers? Was wondering as I was listening to a John Hiatt album last night (Bring the Family) that was cut with DMM (actually, I was streaming it so the DMM is irrelevant, but I was still thinking about it).