It's funny how records are still best.

Robm321 you are wrong, wrong, wrong! Open reel tape is the best. There is no legitimate argument that anyone can make against that. It's not preference, but fact. The preference is if you're too lazy to deal with the inconvenience. But the sound is the best.

Geez, Dan ... it would be terribly unfair of me to let you shoulder the burden of storing Merganser's LP collection all by yourself. Just to help you out, I'll take half.

BTW, isn't a Merganser a duck? :-)

It depends on how the recording was mastered as to which one sounds the best and the quality of the vinyl used. Some of my LPs are as quiet as the CD version and usually sounds better. This is not always the case. Sometimes the CD sounds better. But one thing is for sure. CDs will make you fatter.

>>But one thing is for sure. CDs will make you fatter<<

And richer. As someone who misguidedly threw out all his hundreds of LPs 15 years ago, and starting from scratch again in the voodoo world of vinyl, I am amazed that the same recordings I bought for a couple of dollars in the 80s are now about $30-40 (classical re-issues). Ouch!

But think of all those people who foolishly sold all their vinyl (thanks folks, I'm enjoying them a bunch at a buck a pop) to replace it with expensive CDs! OUCH!

Another funny thing, the industry did not develop CDs out of a humanitarian desire to benefit the human race and bring music to our thirsty ears, they did it to vastly increase their profits (production costs a fraction of vinyl, price at least doubled at the time, or more). In doing so, they made it possible to download and send the data via the internet, which killed CD sales and sank the record companies' profits. CD: down. SACD: down. DVD-Audio: down. Hoist by their own petard, what oh what will they do next? Poetic justice! No wonder everyone is getting fed up and vinyl is undergoing something of a renaissance. The King is dead, long live the King!