Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD

Dyna, I’m going to go out on a limb here & say you missed there point. You have suggested vinyl as being antiquated & inferior (sound wise / I guess you like the looks) to digital, while using a Garrard Zero 100 as your standard. Probably not a fair comparison, unless you have another vinyl standard.

Boxer:

Hmmmm....misunderstanding all around.  I grew up with records.  Listened to my parents' and my schoolmates' systems.  The Zero-100 I purchased in 1972 or '73 was my first turntable.  I owned others up until about '92 when I quit records altogether.  I referenced the Zero-100 as an example of how turntables can "look cool."  Both immediate respondents erroneously assumed that 50+ year old turntable was my vinyl SQ standard.  They did not read (or understand) the context of my post and got it wrong.

Plus, Elizabeth shows me no favor because, in jest, I teased her about using her refrigerator to "burn-in" her uber-expensive AC plugs.

My opinion of vinyl use being mostly about nostalgia and "retro-coolness" stands.  I find that outdated "system" terribly inconvenient and mechanically complex; others find it fun and completely listenable.  However, IMO, no matter how much money your throw at it or how much you like it, the phonograph record cannot compete with digital as a playback method...assuming equality of other factors. .

Again, in my opinion, analog equipment/media vendors are getting rich pandering to those that crave the latest fashion.  Smart - but often dishonest - marketing.

It is sad that a relatively archaic thing like vinyl works so well even with the digital revolution having occurred...how can all those people be enjoying well sorted analog when their iPhone is RIGHT THERE. So what if a great vinyl pressing sounds astonishing? You're never gonna get that minute back that you spent cleaning the needle and running the dust brush over the album...life is too short for all that hassle when all you get from it is music that's analogous to real sound. I get it man.

I think it was the best comment in this thread and my personal award goes to @millercarbon

That is why, anyone tries to tell me a turntable got absolutely crushed by a CDP, all I can do is ask, from how high was it dropped?

Dyna,
"My opinion of vinyl use being mostly about nostalgia and "retro-coolness" stands."
Obviously you can have any opinion you choose. I'm just wondering what your vinyl standard was to come to this conclusion. I don't think you mentioned another table other than the zero. If you did, my apologies & I'm asking you to please reiterate...

Thanks

Boxer:

I assume that you have read my recent posts above.  I stopped listening to records in 1992...after about 32 years of my life of that being the best media around.  I do not have to spend thousands of dollars to buy turntables (again) and music (again) that I already have on digital (mostly CD) in order to be fairly certain that vinyl is merely a current fashion.

Yes, I have auditioned vinyl on modern ultra-high end equipment.  Sounds great...like well recorded records always did.  Different than digital?  You bet.  Better than digital?  To my ears, no.  Convenience?  No contest.  

My main issue with vinyl, in addition to a long list of other inconveniences, is that you are stuck with the song selection and order pressed onto the record.  And you have to flip the damn record.  As in the old days, albums (with many exceptions) are typically two or three really good tracks and seven or eight of filler.  Even if analog discs were scientifically capable of providing a better than digital playback, I could not tolerate being forced to listen to tracks I don't like to accommodate a out of date (albeit cool looking) media.  Makes zero sense to me...and I've been around a while.

To your question....it has been 27 years since I've had a turntable.  Audio memory is so perishable (a fact) it wouldn't matter what turntables I had back then...I'd be unable to compare that analog playback memory to present day digital playback of a well recorded CD or FLAC flie.

In recent memory, a number of digital "systems" failed though they were supposed to be better than CD's - DVD-Audio, Digital Tape, SACD and others.  I fell for SACD.  Was it better?  Yes it was.  But it failed because it wasn't better enough to buy all your music again.  I dumped SACD after three years but I can still play my discs on my Oppo 105. Vinyl, I suspect will eventually fade away in the same fashion.

When the absolute sole "proof" of the superiority of records comes from vinyl aficionados, who tout that system as "sounding better," I'll take my ears, experience and science any day. 

A sorta long-winded answer to your very polite question.  My apologies.