Why vinyl

@gjfalls thank you for the kind words! 

Why vinyl?

I’ve spent plenty of time with great digital—streaming, files, DACs that measure and sound superb. Convenience, silence, precision. All real advantages.

And yet… vinyl keeps pulling me back.

For me, it isn’t nostalgia or surface noise romanticism. It’s about engagement. Vinyl demands participation: choosing a record, cleaning it, cueing the arm, sitting down with intention. That ritual slows me down—and in doing so, changes how I listen.

Sonically, what keeps me is not “warmth” in the caricature sense. It’s scale, texture, and flow. Properly set up, vinyl presents instruments with body and continuity that feels less segmented, less processed. Timing feels human. Dynamics breathe. The music unfolds rather than being “delivered”.

I also find vinyl more forgiving without being dull. Poor recordings can still be enjoyable; great recordings can be transcendent. There’s a coherence to the presentation that makes me listen to albums—whole sides—rather than tracks.

Is vinyl perfect? Of course not. It’s fussy, expensive, and occasionally maddening. But the payoff is that it turns listening into an experience rather than a background activity. When I play records, I’m present in a way I’m often not with digital.

Digital is astonishing. Vinyl is involving.

I’m grateful we don’t have to choose just one.

Experience has a sound.

Two reasons:

1) vinyl masters are actually pretty frequently superior to digital masters (though the opposite can be true as well, obviously);

2) I’m just a sucker or second harmonic distortion!

I have no idea why, but when I put the same album on my turntable, streamer and CD player and switch between them the vinyl always sounds better to me.

I'm 66 and I've been listening to and collecting vinyl since I was 9. My uncle gave me the first two Beatles LP's in 1967 and I never stopped listening or collecting.

When the CD craze hit in the 80's I amassed a collection of around 1500 because I believed they were better at the time and vinyl all but disappeared for some time.

I will never try and say vinyl is "better", but I enjoy listening to it more than any other format.

Sound is so much important that our voice  is the physical imprint of our own soul through our body manifesting as presence through other hearing body...

The source matter as much as the room, it is why vinyl matter so much to most...

«In the beginning is the word»

Turntable came just after the wheel ...