Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl

@lelleturbo, don't take my retort too seriously, I was just yanking your chain and actually enjoyed your sense of humor. Thanks for posting.

vv32bl,

Back in the mid 80's I started collecting classical records, around the same time cd's became available. French Deccas were being blown out at bargain prices. There were also Phillips, RCA, London's, and a few other brand records still available, that audiophiles really were not looking for.  Audiophiles were looking for London FFSS, Decca FFSS, RCA Shaded Dogs labels, and Mercury Living Presence albums.                                                                                                                                             In the late 80's I returned to South Florida and continued looking for sought after albums.  In North Miami Beach there were a couple of used record shops that I didn't care for.  One of them would reseal used records, and even apply black shoe polish to them.  There was also a shop in Pompano Florida that had a much better selection at better prices.  Unfortunately I was living seventy miles south of Pompano in the Homestead Florida area.                                                                                                                                                                                                An old audio pal of mine and I would take turns driving to Pompano once every week for about two years, buying used records. These trips ended abruptly on my part when I took about ten records and a Beethoven Nine Symphony boxed set in very good condition to the check out counter.  Upon returning home and taking the records out of the bag, the Beethoven boxed set was never put in the bag.  After checking the receipt I then noticed that I did not pay for it.  Whoever had priced the set had priced it lower than they were willing to let it go for, so they set it aside without telling me.                                                                                                                                                                                                      They lost a good customer, and did me a favor that I didn't fully appreciate at the time.  Since that time I have not purchased any used records, and have purchased nothing but new reissued records that are delivered to my house from different mail order companies.  Many of these albums are forty five rpm that are on two discs.  They are not inexpensive but they are extremely well worth whatever you have to pay for them, because of the "you are there sound".                                                                                                                                                                 Audiophiles that are just getting a turntable now days have no idea how fortunate they are.  All they have to do is sign onto a web site and pick out records that I drove thousands of miles just looking for back in the 80's.  In the years before the internet buying sought after record albums was driving,driving and more driving, with a small reward if any.  

I haven’t been on audiogon for a very very long time so please forgive me and my brief history of my second passion in life of being an audiophilist like my dad, occasionally rears its head on forums while I’m not in my favorite chair listening to music. Since my dad being an electronics engineer managed a Kent HiFi store in the late 60’s, I fell in love with reproduction of music and it’s aim to be as real as possible to the original music source back then. .......... ..So why do you love or hate vinyl? I’ll admit the old black record has taken of again with a passion and even my son in-law a generation behind me,is buying vinyl today like its going out of fashion just as I did back in the late 60’s ,70’s and through into the 80’s when CD’s came on board in my life. ...The above question has been brought up at many many dinners over the decades with other enthusiasts and my friends. I have come to the conclusion like my father that if you are OCD about perfection in this life unfortunate as I am and he is , your brain can’t turn off from imperfections ,its in our DNA .... Well you can’t but help hear and think of continual and the mounting imperfections while listening to vinyl records...Our thoughts when playing vinyl. "Is my turntable bias amp coloring this sound" or "is my stylus coloring this reproduction as well" or "is it turning at the exact same speed as the original master cut from the master real to real" . I’m also thinking, I can’t get true bass because I know vinyl can’t be cut deep or wide enough to a low music to go below 100hz . Am I building up static and altering coloring my sound?Did I clean the record properly before I put it on ,or crap the one i really hated is that a warp on my very expensive ordered in collectible vinyl record and every play it changes its sound quality because of needle friction cutting into that soft vinyl record its wearing the record out...The questions just kept coming but not any more ....So then I sit in front of one of my pure direct original gold mastered mobile fidelity SACD ,Steely Dan , Patrica Barber ,Eagles and I stop thinking and start enjoying, everything being perfect in the world again ,listening to a beautiful rich deep accurate surround sound stage whether it be stereo or multi ....So sorry guys and girls I fall into the later category I hate vinyl......Lived it, been there , done that. Besides these old bones like everything to be done with a remote . I don’t want to get up every 20 minutes flipping vinyl as I did way back when ,,50 years ago.. Thankgod for digital perfection.

@maverick11359, I didn't get that you were joking till you said the phrase "digital perfection", you had me going there.

I like Vinyl because it is analog, and I don’t like digital 44.1kHz sampling rate, I believe 44.1kHz sampling rate is too low resolution.
Although there are a lot of Hi Res streaming service online, but you can’t tell whether the original studio recording is 44.1kHz recording "upscale" to Hi Res bit rate. There is no sound quality improvement by "upscaling".
Read this and I lost confidence in CD’s 44.1kHz sampling rate
https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/is-the-sound-on-vinyl-records-better-than-on-cds-or-dvds.htm?utm_source=howstuffworks&utm_medium=recirc