Why vinyl

I had a ten plus year hiatus from vinyl. I sold my table but kept my records.    

I just upgraded my turntable and have been rediscovering my favorite albums.  Was up all weekend and this week way past midnight listening.   

Vinyl records are fun.  I like the way they look, feel, and sound.  I like the pictures and the words on the back.  I like the challenge of getting the turntable set up properly.  I know they're more difficult to deal with, more expensive, take up more space, and they are old fashion.  Let's face it, they are not for everyone.  In an age of assimilation, they are an eccentric's passion.  The older I get the more passionate I get about records.  So many records, so little time.  In a topsy turvy world they are an anchor to our past.

I like the way it spins me round round round round baby, the way it spins me round round round round    :)

Into the Groove, Groove Baby, Groovy kind of love, Groovin’ on a Sunday afternoon.

Now take those wonderful Grove's and Groovy's and Groovin's we are all so familiar with and substitute the with:

                           0's and 1's Baby    

It Just don't cut it, Vinyl has this everlasting culture infiltration. It is  ingrained into Society with an impact way beyond the medium itself.

For me, the great thing with vinyl is that it gets better with prolonged listening. It becomes more involving and more immersive with time. Also, more relaxing and absorbing. In short, effortless and very satisfying. 

When listening to streaming the converse is true. While it often starts out lively and impressive sounding, this does not last. After a couple of albums, I become listless and bored. Invariably, I lose attention and do something else or change to vinyl.

Now, I have put a great deal of effort into streaming, but despite improvements the fundamental difference between the formats remains. It’s not a digital/analogue thing because in my system the phono signal is digitised at an early stage.  I suspect that it’s down to mastering because I’d have expected streaming and CD, etc. to be superior. Sadly in practice, I find this not to be the case with the music that I prefer listening to.

I suppose the more pertinent question would be "Why not streaming?"