Why do you listen to records?

1) I love how they sound

2) I truly enjoy the process and the inconvenience the digital-philes hate

3) The nostalgia

4) LP’s just sound better.

I am not going to argue the virtues of one format versus the other I enjoy both. However I have more of a connection to the music when I clean my LP, place it on the platter, set the speed, clean the needle and drop the needle in the grove. Do not get that when I pick a play list and hit play, same  with CD’s no connection to the process or the music. 

Because it's fun!

But that's also the reason I listen to CDs and streaming services. 

Nostalgia, enjoying the process, historic significance… all great reasons to enjoy vinyl.. But if they sound better, more musical, more natural, it is because of your components (your digital end) not because of the format. Vinyl used to be the only option, then superior until digital was improved, now at nearly all price points digital can sound as good or better. 

+1 @ghdprentice 

@ghdprentice 

Yes, digital has come a long way, but then so has vinyl. 

I am not convinced it’s possible to make a definitive judgement on which is better. There are just too many confounding issues, not least of which is mastering.  

In theory, streaming/CD may well potentially be the superior format. For what it’s worth, my opinion is that choosing between them is matter of taste and what type of music you listen to as much as anything.

One could just as easily say that the components may be holding back vinyl.

If you haven’t heard it yet, I think you’ll be surprised how much the LP12 has come on with Urika II, the KDSM/3 , Organik, Bedrok, the new Radikal, etc. 

I am not going to get hung up too much on which is the better format as I need both. I did try living without vinyl for nearly five years to invest in the digital side. Yet when I came back to it, I discovered it had come on in leaps and bounds.