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What albums, in your opinion, sound unquestionably better on Vinyl rather than Digital?

So this is not an effort to start a medium-war thread, rather in my view some records just seem to be mastered better on the vinyl record version than the digital version. Three that spring to mind from my record collection:

  • Henri Texier - Varech
  • Tom Misch - Geography
  • JLin - Black Origami (this very surprisingly to me)


I know everyone’s system is different, everyone’s ears are different and everyone’s tastes are different, but for the purposes of this discussion let us assume that YOU are the final arbiter of objective reality!
corvaldt
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sfseay
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Not a valid question.  What digital - DAC/transport/file bit rate, etc.?  What analog - R2R, Turntable, Cassette/media?  The question isn’t answerable!
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notesaddict
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Recently, I ordered Leonard Cohen’s vinyl “Old Ideas”. It came with a CD edition. It was surprising to hear the vinyl’s superiority. 
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unreceivedogma
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All other things being equal, which they are usually not, I’d say vinyl.

Some disks are available only on CD. Since my vinyl collection is ten times larger than my CD collection, I’ve spent 10 times more on the vinyl playback equipment than the CD player.
team212
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 All the Moody Blues Albums

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2channel8
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Carly Simon's Anticipation sounds better on vinyl than MoFi SACD.
I've got a supposedly audiophile Japanese import of Bobby Darin's "That's All". The "Mack The Knife" cut has a lot of over-modulation or some such gunk. The best version of the song I've found so far is on a CD collection, probably because the gunk is less obvious in lo-fi. Other than that, the only albums that I have both a CD and vinyl version of are because the vinyl has been abused.
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