Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD

Right you are, simao. Except I would add, its not just the pressing. The MoFi Dire Straits 45 is an awful pressing. Mine skips on Walk of Life, there are pops and crackles everywhere, and the whole pressing is just depressingly noisy across all sides. Its so bad I called Acoustic Sounds and said this is the worst MoFi ever! They agreed! Set a record for returns! And yet, even so, the sound that is there is so glorious that when they said they can refund but not exchange as there are none to exchange it for I said, well then I'll keep it!

So its not just the pressing. Another example. I have a really nice reissue of Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon. Pulled it out recently. Looks and plays like new. Quiet as can be. Perfectly fine pressing. Could hardly stand it. Awful detail, congested, harsh, glaring, pretty much crap. Pulled out one of my old MoFi's from back in the 70's, probably played 40 times by now. Ahhh, sweet, pure, natural, clear, that's the ticket! 

The MoFi is of course famously made from an Original Master Recording, and comes with a two page insert documenting all the obsessive steps taken to preserve fidelity in the process. My hunch is the reissue was made from gawd knows what source tape, knocked off on whatever gear was cheap, by whoever was available, so that by the time it got to the final step in the process it really doesn't matter what vinyl they use or how its pressed. The recording was an abortion from the get-go.

I think something like that happened on the LP of The New Basement Tapes. They messed that one up so much it sounds better on YouTube.

Comparing apples to apples recording quality wise its no contest. Even the crappiest MoFi ever crushes any digital version.

No surprise to me. That model esoteric is very good  sounding....

@dynaquest4

 You covered too many bases and a response from me would just take too long. I'm glad, though, that my post got your chops churning and interested you enough to provide such a verbose reply.

I used film from 1972 to 2004. After digital reached 8mp I never looked back at film.

 
Just because i start uploading my film scan archive online recently, actually all of them are from 2004 to 2010. I see a lot of feedbacks, much more than with digital. So i assume there is still something special about analog film. This is one of my cross-processed 120mm slide film, on that picture you see a Great Canary Telescope sited on a volcanic peak 2267 metres above sea level in Atlantic Ocean. This is the world's largest single-aperture optical telescope. I can not do a picture like that with digital camera. It's a magic of the film. 

I think the lack of enthusiasm about analog film photography or vinyl records in a digital world does not affect everyone. There is and always will be something special about analog formats. 

in the case where a listener prefers digital to analog, most likely it’s because the listener cannot discern and hear the holes in the sound that exist with digital. in that case, stick with digital. if you have really good ears, then nothing but analog will ever suffice, especially if you grew up listening to analog since the dawn of stereo sound in the late 1950’s. the new generation grew up listening to digital so they can’t tell the difference. it’s sort of like the young kids who have a 4 cylinder Honda car that they think is really fast....but Dad had a 1969 GTO with a V8 and 360 horsepower back in the day, and he knows better....I've yet to hear a CD that could compare to analog tape on an open reel machine, the differences really jump out at you with headphones.  the ambience and depth with analog is superior.   it's not something you'll always hear playing it through speakers in a room.  it's a subtle difference yet it's definitely better and more authentic with analog recordings.

Chakster:

Not sure I get why you uploaded that "slide" image.  To me it just looks like a a digital scan of a blurry purple haze.  And since it is now a digital image, what I supposed to compare it with.