Vinyl sounds better (shots fired)

@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.

That is some thing I always felt....but I feel it depends,on the recording...