Why do you listen to records?


Do you listen to records for the SQ, or do you just prefer to listen to music through this medium?  
I find myself putting records on occasionally, ( I have a large  collection) but I’m not sure if it’s because of their sound.  I certainly have the availability of millions of songs or compositions to listen to by streaming, and the sound quality is just abut the same, and, of course, the variety is endless.

So why listen to records?

rvpiano

My last vinyl was a pressing of some classical music so badly done , it pop without stop after few listening...

It was perhaps my needle ...

But i go on listening  mainly some good Bach music pressing which never popped and few choral albums well done materially   and it was enough for me for years...

It was in 1978, i never buy another vinyl till the cd came...

it is evident that there is a difference between cd and vinyl...

But there is too much factors at play in the system/room to criticize anyone from any viewpoint...

As i said where do you buy vinyl albums of Persian and Indian music ?

Do you listen only Western music from Western pop of the golden era on vinyl  ?

This question between vinyl and digital is as preposterous as the war between subjectivist and objectivist... (on an acoustical deeper viewpoint) 

I am so immersed in music that the object for me is best kept as minimalistic, all my albums are in digital immaterial format...( where do you put thousands of vinyl? )

If i was very rich i will had a system for vinyl with a table  around 100,000 bucks for sure...angel

but i dont suffer  from  that "misfortune" to be poor when i listen music  with low cost  digital format   in well optimized system/room..cool

I collect music not material albums...

But i understand too the happiness of those who own these vinyl  albums...It is a life journey i had never gone through...

 

«Any object,even a rock, you kept for 50 years is a friend and no more an object»--Anonymus collector

 

 

 

Just to stir things up: how can a 100+ year old technology not be inferior to a constantly evolving one?

The magic of vinyl is that it STILL sounds great. Most people can't hear the difference. Some of us like the way vinyl sounds better than digital. 

The thought of an awkward to handle physical medium in this weird AI world is just so comforting, I can't see anything cooler, more "normal"....

Vinyl sound better if all parameters are here together in my room/system...

But digital may sound as good if all parameters  are here together in my room/system...

If we listen some people with TOP system analogical as well as digital, (mike lavigne for example) who prefer vinyl and tapes we can believe them. I believe him completely...

But none of this people bash digital well done...

Then this debate is useless...

I will not go from my 1000 bucks digital system who sound very good to a vinyl very costlier one to decide the truth "once for all" as some here fanatically vouch for... smiley

 
 

 

 

Just to stir things up: how can a 100+ year old technology not be inferior to a constantly evolving one?

@parkergetdean 

One possible reason would be that vinyl replay has been constantly evolving too.