CDs Vs LPs

Reverb is acting as a hub for various sellers of LP's and CD's. They make it easy to compare prices and availability. I have bought on this site successfully!

Got a nice copy of the Stone's Get Your Ya Ya's Out LP for a good price and some CD's!

How about this: just won at an EBAY auction two nice LP's of Hendrix's Are You Experienced and Lou Reed's Transformer! $20 + $5 shipping! Original pressings in excellent condition! There are bargains out there!

IMO, there is no better medium than reel to reel running st 15ips. I think they went out of favor, due to inconvenience. When I did my internship at MCA in Nashville, we ran off demos from rtr onto cassettes. The quality difference was unmistakable.  I no longer own a rtr, but if they still made prerecorded tapes, I would be there.  30 years ago, I would buy an lp, transfer it to cassette and put the album away. That's why all my LPs sound like new. However, due to the tape size, there's simply not enough room to get the dynamic range u want on a cassette. I think older pressings of lps, not involved with any digital source, sound the best. Many here know of the better pressings than I. I have bought new vinyl that sounds bad. As far as the pops and clicks, it depends on the vinyl quality and how you care for them. I played a 35 year lp of Justin Hayward and John Lodge today. It was pristeen. 

I failed to mention, CDs definitely have a place in my system. I have a Theta Miles CD player and there’s a huge difference between it and a standard CD player. I’m sure there are much better ones available now, but I love the Miles. I can play a CD at much higher db levels than my vinyl, due to acoustical feedback. CDs are convenient, but they’re somewhat sterile. They lack ambience to me. BYW, I’m running my Miles straight analog (using the built in dac) to my linestage preamp. I have a Kora Hermes II DAC, I’m going to reconnect. All tube DAC and preamps. Very warm sound, but still lacks the ambience of an LP or rtr.