Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl


I just responded to the thread on how many sources do you have ( shotgunning tonight) and got me wondering why I love vinyl so much? Have a very good digital side on both my main system and my headphone system as well that was set up for Redbook playback (headphone system) only utilising my vast 1,000 CD collection, enjoyed it for about a year, added a turntable and haven't used it since. My love of vinyl has been with me for 55 years, buying and playing, setting up my tables , matching preamps and enjoying the fruit of my labor. I believe my love of vinyl is a simple one, it stemmed from the hands on, need to tinker and adjust that I was born with, it's a very physical attraction that I just can not resist, it satisfies a lot of needs for me and in some way is that mistress that I maintain. My turntable is massive and so easy to look at, I can touch it and get more out of it, I can read about the artist and get info while I listen to an album, I can swap out a cartridge and change the tone and in the day the album covers served as a rolling tray to roll a joint. I love vinyl, but absolutely understand while others don't. I also envy people like uberwaltz that have and use so many sources, wish I could. What say you?
tooblue
Can't say I like the vinyl record but have grown from it a long time ago. Why get stuck in a few piles of vinyl when a whole world of music is in front of your feet and just wait for you to discover new wonderful music that Streaming offers.
I'm not going to sit in front of a vinyl record player, life is too short for this :)
I have Chord Qutest DAC. It sounds great.
But it can't match vinyl in term of tone, live dynamics, and general musicality. 
But I understand why many people don't hear advantages of analog sound. The problems are: transistor amplifiers and dull, low sensitive speakers. Most Hi-End systems don't translate a real instrument tones and most of audiophiles ton't care about tone.
My records are played on a Pro-Ject 2Experience TT with a Sumiko Blue Point #2 cartridge and a Pro-Ject Phono Box 2 @ $1600 all together in 2005. I play my digital music through a Bluesound Vault($750Music Direct demo)  music server, using an Oppo 105 ($1200) as a DAC.  I have some albums where I own the record, CD(burned to the Bluesound) and a High Res file downloaded on the Bluesound. I have NEVER had anyone say they like the sound of the digital files better than the analog. The High Res files come close. Some say they are not sure if one actually sounds better but the records are nicer to listen to. That being said the convenience of the Bluesound server can't be beat. To be honest nostalgia may play a part in liking albums more, my friends at work ALWAYS complain that I almost never listen to anything from this century. Mostly true with the exception of Lake Street Dive and Leon Bridges. Bottom line ENJOY THE MUSIC.   
Why do YOU love vinyl?

The question is a little odd, isn’t it? I mean, does anyone really love vinyl? Vinyl is noisy, fragile, inconvenient. Vinyl forces you to either listen to the songs in the order they are on the record, or get up and change tracks. Remote vinyl? No such thing. The very best vinyl, Better Records Hot Stampers, are insanely expensive. Or the 45s, again have you jumping up and down all the time.

With vinyl you have to have a masters in physics, geometry, and engineering just to set one up. Oh, enough jigs and meters and test records to fill a mad-scientists laboratory.

Then also with vinyl you have to put up with all the looks and comments from people who "know" you must have a screw loose, or be some kind of troglodyte with nostalgia for the good old days that never were. Or if its not that then the ones who "know" it doesn’t measure, its not "high-rez", and what you really love is "distortion".

Okay, I guess maybe you could love vinyl, at least a little, because you know that in spite of all that it is the one true audiophile Gold Standard, the one digital is always being said to be "like". The highest compliment ever paid any digital anything always seems to be, analog-"like". Which tells you right there they all know (really know, not the fake scare quotes "know") which one is really The One.

But even that is kind of weak, nowhere near enough to make me, or probably anyone else, really love vinyl.

No. Sorry.

Dunno about anyone else, but what I love is music. Just absolutely love it. Always have. Probably always will. And the better it sounds, the more I love it. Which, unfortunately for me, nothing else makes music sound better than vinyl.
Yes, vinyl is tricky to setup.
There are too many variables - turntable, tonearm, cartridge, phonostage, step up transformers.
It has noise, more distortions and other imperfections.
But it give you a real filing of tone and dynamics of musical instruments and more soul of an interpretation.
It relates more to the golden era of tube recordings from 1955 to 1965. These records made with tube equipment without Dolby and other harmful noise reduction.
For example, I have many RCA records The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts series (1955-1970).
The quality of these records after 1964 dramatically dropped, because RCA recording studio moving to transistor equipment.
It it also important to play vinyl on transparent equipment like tube SET amp and high sensitive speakers. Most of popular Hi-End equipment is very detailed in upper mid and high frequencies but not transparent in the mid-range and lower mid-range.