are digital recordings on vinyl any better than CD

Orpheus10,
I appreciate your gift, thank you, but unfortunately I'll have to decline.
As I said, I am not ready now for reel to reel project, and when I embark on any project I try to do it right. In this case this would involve going all over the deck, servicing and aligning it, in addition to fixing clutch and whatever else might be close to breaking.This would be quite expensive but worth it. Besides, I was thinking of highest performance, that's two track deck. And I would need at least twenty or so reels plus good balanced cable to get it going.
Perhaps, you could reconsider and have it fixed. You play tapes a lot. I just don't want to imagine it being thrown away. It's good machine, it doesn't deserve it.

The digital Mahler 4th by Bernstein is one of my best sounding records.  Its a stunner...the performance is also supurb

Can anyone explain why digitally remastered cassettes sound so good? Take Kind of Blue for example. The digitally remastered cassette is powerful, dynamic and engaging, quite unlike many of Kind of Blue CD incarnations which can sound kind of blah. Ditto the epic live AC/DC cassette, also digitally remastered, If You Want Blood.

Orpheus10,  I never said "it's all subjective"--I said "it's somewhat subjective." 

While of course it can be debated which sounds better --cd or vinyl-and this is all based on the sophistication of the equipment used to make those recordings.    It was easy to make that comparison when cd's first came out.  It was hands down that analog vinyl sounded better.   Not to go into that debate --suffice to say--Now a days you have to ask the label if the record was transcribed  from a digital master  or was it actually produced and mastered throughout the process using analog only.    My point being---if there is going to be any perceivable difference one way or the other how is that going to happen if  the processes are not kept separate?    if the record has been produced using digital master I dont know what it would sound like using all analog process.     Why would I even buy a record that has been produced via digital master?  The idea to me is to buy an authentic analog recording and it aint that if there is a digital master in there somewhere.   So,  Im not buying much vinyl these days,,except for the occasional  dated pressing before the advent of digital.