Vinyl vs Digital Music

You don't listen to vinyl for the "audio quality" in the sense of getting the most precise reproduction of a recording. You listen to it because of the color that the playback process adds to the music. There is something charming about the occasional click or pop, not to mention that a lot of older music transferred to CD wasn't necessarily transferred well. And music targeting vinyl to begin with is usually mastered differently.

Won't the audio that's pressed onto the vinyl be digitally mastered anyway these days?

Some People are starting to grow sick of the all digital access off the post-iTunes MP3 era, now the streaming era. The physical connection to the album is lost - and if you’re a music nerd, and want to have a physical connection to the music, Vinyl is a superior format. Often the artwork is much larger, intricate, and gatefolds are beautiful, not to mention limited color releases and picture discs. It’s something you can frame or display on a shelf, and feels more vintage than a CD. Rarely woul

There are some technologies that are just completely dominated by others. Encoding audio on vinyl seems to be one them. From a pure sound perspective its hard to think why one would want to use a sub-par option (ready to stand corrected if true audiophiles have an argument besides nostalgia / retro feeling = valuing the scratches and jumps of the needle).BUT. Vinyl is not just the audio experience. Its the tangible artifact: the artwork, supporting information, a physical place in a musi

It's probably along the same line as how vinyl records supposedly sound better.

-For me, two main reasons, none of which relate to the perceived superiority of the vinyl format -a) In recent years, it has been a trend that the vinyl masters suffer from less compression than their digital counterparts. Hence, they may sound better, despite the inherent limitations of the physical format.b) I note that the mere act of putting a record on the turntable makes me eager to listen more carefully than if I just find the same music on Spotify; this is just a lack of self disci

Most vinyl records are sold as vinyl + digital anyway.The appeal to the vinyl is the ritual that we kind of lost buy going digital. I've also gone back to start reusing CDs, at least the little I kept. I donated most of my CD collection when I moved country and kind of regret it.People keep talking about quality to praise digital media. But most people saying this listen to music through crappy bluetooth speakers nowadays. There is a very small amount of users still using decent hi-f

Vinyl isn’t higher quality than digital, but it certainly sounds different.

A lot of people say that digital is the way to listen to the music, because it doesn’t have the cracks and pops of the vinyl but in my honest opinion those are the things that makes listening to vinyls interesting.Now a lot of people probably disagree with me, but having small cracks, pops and hissing sound (as long as they don’t hinder the listening experience) give the record an unique feeling. The record having these cracks and pops usually means it’s been used and liked.But if you want

I have some newly-released vinyl and cassettes I bought partially for the novelty, partially to support the artists (one artist I listen to releases only on digital and cassette).I also thought there would be more nostalgia and fun in listening to vinyl, but after 30 seconds I'm now lost in the music and there's absolutely no difference in the medium it's being played on.Until I hit the end of side A and have to turn the disc over.(of course I don't want to diminish