CD Got Absolutely Crushed By Vinyl

I have a $8000 turntable setup, and a $5000 streamer/DAC.  On most of what I listen to, the vinyl sounds better.  But sometimes CD is better.  But the differences in the source quality, imho, far outweighs the differences in playback capabilities.  The source quality is almost always because of the mastering process, particularly how much processing (and what type) took place. 

@skipskip

Vinyl destroys itself every time you play it.  

It sounds like SONY CD advertisement from the 80s. 

Actually CD destroys itself much faster, one single scratch and it's not repairable and the whole CD or a part of it is unplayable. The worst media format ever. Anyone can look where is vinyl now and where is the CD. 

Hi Sleepwalker,
Could you start with the entire system chain so we know what you were hearing, and the material, so we know the mastering? Without that its really jibberish.
I've been doing some A-B experiments recently to isolate various contributions and its very hard.  Most recently on SPDIF vs USB with a good recovery clock. Quite amazing.
G

The OP is making a nonsense claim. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting my mate who has a top-end Naim set up (Naim Statement pre amp, CD555) with a Linn LP12 deck. So £20k of CD player and the same for the LP12. We compared the vinyl and CD of a number of titles. Both sounded fantastic and the differences were not huge. I would say that more sounded better on CD than vinyl though my friend thought the opposite. The only definitive thing was that bass was deeper on CD on modern recordings (eg Random Access Memories by Daft Punk). I would argue that the differences we heard were more to do with the mastering than the format.

In summary: the differences between CD and vinyl on high-end equipment are marginal - high-end replay of vinyl and digital are essentially similar.  The differences you hear will be more to do with the differences in the respective mastering than in the format itself.   If you are hearing big differences between the two formats then something is wrong with the part of your system playing the poorer sounding format.

The only definitive thing was that bass was deeper on CD on modern recordings (eg Random Access Memories by Daft Punk).

£20k of CD player to listen to the rubbish like the Daft Punk ?

Do you realize that they are recorded digitally in the studio, so what is the point to compare vinyl recorded from the digital master to a CD from a digital master ?

The goal of analog is ANALOG, not a digital converted to analog.

Get youself some proper original records from the 70’s to make sure you’re listening to the state of the art analog, not a digitally remastered reissue or new music recorded digitally. Original pressing from analog master tape is where the vinyl is better than CD of the same music recorded later from digital source. 

Also the phono cartridge is the key to analog.