Why do you listen to records?

One compelling reason for listening to vinyl records is that so much great music from the pre-digital era exists in that form and attempts to present it in digital formats have not been universally successful. This is not necessarily due to any inherent flaw in digital, but rather the way it has been done in terms of mastering or possibly a deterioration in the original tapes. We have also seen that many attempts to reissue such material on vinyl have also failed sound quality wise.

@deep_333 

I don’t have a vinyl belief system and happily listen to both vinyl and digital formats.

As I said in an earlier post, they both have their strengths and weaknesses.

The fanaticism lies in jumping in to rubbish a format, whenever anyone attempts to discuss its benefits.

It is evident that for almost all  cases and most systems/rooms and most ears, there exist a difference between vinyl and digital system which may be evaluated negative or positive , as it  exist a difference between all  two vinyl systems compared one by one in different rooms for different ears  or two digital systems...

Then you are right :

The fanaticism lies in jumping in to rubbish a format, whenever anyone attempts to discuss its benefits.

 Now we can use mathematics to explain the equivalence or superiority of digital over vinyl or the physical  limitations of vinyl over digital, but mathematics is one thing , and music experience and  subjective interpretation is another....

In our era all boil down to techno-cultism versus Nature...In audio it is debates between subjectivists and objectivist, but psycho-acoustics know better that these fruitless debates in audio thread... ( Nature does not exist for sure for corporate powers dominating and using technology passed over as "science") but here i am off track for this thread... 

It's 90% of what I have. I don't stream.

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