When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better?

gregkohanmim
Lowrider nailed it - this is sonic bliss:

"playing a record on a rotating platter, then passing the vibrations picked up by the stylus through the electromagnetic field of the cartridge, and finally sending the signal up the tonearm (which can resonate) results in distortions being generated. The sound now has colourations which we perceive as being warm. These harmonic distortions are different than those produced by digital playback and are more pleasing to to the ear."

What’s perhaps even funnier is the whole concept of a nano scale laser beam attempting to stay on the nano scale data spiral under the duress of a fluttering, flopping disc and all manner of seismic and acoustic and other mechanical vibrations. Even the rather clever laser servo cannot possibly keep up. Something’s missing’ all right. What’s sounds like hyper detail is actually over-etched synthetic junk. And that’s what makes untreated CDs played on unisolated and un-tweaked systems so gol durn irritating, infuriating... unlistenable, really.

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This: "What sounds like hyper detail is actually over-etched synthetic junk."

Brought to you by Bose.....

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RIAA showed how well even extreme equalization could work.  The equalization box with the Bose 901'showed that no matter what amount of equalization was applied that it can not compensate for a poor design.

It is quite revealing how many of you guys support your self-fulling prophesy of vinyl adoration. The most revealing are the ones who denigrate cheap 1980's and 1990's CD players, as compared to your Koetsu's etc. Jeez! Get real. How many of you have actually compared comparably priced CD vs. LP equipment on a recording that had very specisl attention to quality and was released on both formats, with the LP on direct to disc? Try Sheffield's recording of Thelma Houston's "pressure Cooker", originally only on D to D vinyl, but decades later  on CD from un-publicized, hidden(?) tapes. Then get back to us. It really would be a shame if your thousands of dollar, if not tens of thousands of dollar turntable systems sounded worse than a decades old, pre-worth-a-darn CD. I wonder if you could justify hearing a good CD drivin system without serious cognative dissonance.

First realized the superiority of vinyl in the early days, when I bought a CD of a favourite recording (Joan Sutherland, Lakme). Then I asked for in-home demos of digital and analogue at the same (high) price point. It was no contest then, and it is no contest now, although the price points have risen by an order of magnitude.

My dealer, a trusted man of good taste, astonished me by preferring digital. He explained that while he could hear electronic distortion, he didn't really mind it, but couldn't abide any degree of speed variation. With me it's the other way, and I have never heard digital that I could listen to, even a six box cost-no-object DIY.