Vinyl sounds better (shots fired)

@gbmcleod

When I was learning to play guitar, I listened to a lot of pre war country blues all the way back to Charlie Patton on tape and later CD copied from old 78s. It’s amazing how the performances can sometimes transcend the limitations of those old analogue recordings.

@billpete 

I kept my LP records all the way through the barren CD era, then added to them and upgraded my turntable during the vinyl revival. Yet I made the silly mistake of selling my turntable to improve the digital side about six years ago. I said before this was a head over heart decision. My former dealer and friend advised against it because he'd done the same thing himself only to return later.

Of course, it wasn't irreversible because I still had my precious and mainly pristine LPs stored lovingly in flight boxes. Then I did a really stupid thing and sold my collection for a tenth of what it would cost to buy again. I didn't really think it through properly. We were moving house to downsize at the time and I had a major operation just a couple weeks before. I was desperate to cast off possessions before the move.

It turned out that I couldn't live without vinyl despite having a top notch streaming setup. Now I've got another turntable, I regret so much the decision to ditch my records. Nevertheless, I am really enjoying accumulating more.

@newton_john 

Kind of a sad story, really. I'm just glad that everyone came to their senses and kept analog alive and I'm very glad that I never got rid of mine. 

The universe is infinite. 

Uhm. Seriously:

I bought my first LP when I was 11.

I now have 6,000+.

I came of age during the LP era, and I never stopped collecting and listening to them.

“Better” is an irrelevant question. We have our preferences. I have mine, which might be characterized as loyalty. And ritual: I was raised Catholic and though I’ve been agnostic since I was 14, I transferred my affection for sacred rites onto this neurotic obsession, maybe as a therapeutic approach to justifying the trouble and expense  

But.

To my ears, vinyl sounds rich warm and silky. Digital sounds thin sterile and gritty.