Can I ask, why do people like vinyl so much?
There are all sorts of reasons to both like and dislike Vinyl.
One of the first things to accept is that all music can be badly recorded and badly Mastered, be it it in the Digital or Analouge domain. A lot of vinyl from the 60's, 70's and 80's was very badly recorded and the pressing to vinyl was also done badly. It didn't change when we all started buying CD's, it was still as badly done, and in fact still is. In the early 1970's when i got my first record deck, it was cheap and was paired with a cheap Amp and cheap speakers............................much like teenagers would do today, only replace cheap record deck with cheap CD player.
Change those cheap HI FI parts for good parts though and things sound a lot different, they did then and they still do now.
The big thing with Vinyl though (as long as it was a good recording in the first place), play it on modern medium to high end gear and you can tell straight away how much better it sounds to it's CD counterpart. The sound stage is always much much wider, deeper and higher. Bass is much tighter and deeper and most importantly, you can feel the ambiance of a recording that you simply don't get with CD.
All that said, a well recorded CD played on a medium to high end system sounds fantastic as well (i know because my system is medium to high end). But in no way does a CD give you the true feeling you are listening to the band/artist in front of you in the same way that vinyl does.
The odd thing about the resurrection of vinyl though, is that most peeps (i don't mean any peeps in this thread) seem to still be using the cheapest way to play vinyl they can find. No point at all in doing that, get the best you can afford to do vinyl or any medium justice.
