Vinyl sounds better (shots fired)

Not to pick on anyone. But, this statement:"I find vinyl replays it closer to how it sounds in Meyershoff, Carnegie or David B. Geffen halls." is so condensed as to not communicate any useful information.

The statement would have to be at least: I find vinyl played through a X cartridge, Y tone arm, on my Z turntable, with my AA phonostage, BB Preamp, CC amp, and DD Speakers. That gets you close... maybe explaining the interconnects, power cords and speaker wires are not necessary to get truth across. 

I can easily say that my friends cheap Rega and all Schiit components with sound terrible in comparison to my streaming system... you can see mine under my ID. Or my vinyl system just blows away my office streaming system and attribute it to the media and not the equipment it is being reproduced on. 

I guess I'm lucky. When I'm listening to vinyl I can't imagine switching back to digital. And when I'm streaming favorite track after favorite track, I never switch back to vinyl. Whatever I'm engaged with at the moment is the superior format. 
 

@billpete 

I agree. I find that, even when it was recorded poorly, it also had fewer microphones and all the things they do in the engineering that reduces the "aliveness" of  music nowadays, that it sounds more like there are real people playing real instruments.

'There was an old album reviewed by The Absolute Sound. It was done in the 1920s and 30s and it's all a one microphone setup and these are people who play music. Some played 'fiddles,' some banjo, some guitar. What's striking is how real the music sounds. It doesn't fool me into believing it's 'live' but it sounds FAR less processed than your average CD.

These type of threads don’t appear on the "digital" sub-forum, but frequent the "analog" sub-forum.

[Analysis: Vinyl plastic dudes are a rather insecure bunch. They know deep down that their "cost no object" vinyl chain could easily sound like a lousy crap-pit if their playlists aren’t restricted to those 3 audiophile records on repeat...must hurt when that happens...mmhmm ]

Vinyl sounds better (shots fired)

Trolling posts like this personalising the issue by provocatively pitting one format against another are the epitome of insecurity. The mention of cost is telling.

The truth of it is that mastering is key and we need both formats to cover all the bases. Nevertheless, it’s perfectly ok to prefer the sound of one over the other.