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Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl

I just responded to the thread on how many sources do you have ( shotgunning tonight) and got me wondering why I love vinyl so much? Have a very good digital side on both my main system and my headphone system as well that was set up for Redbook playback (headphone system) only utilising my vast 1,000 CD collection, enjoyed it for about a year, added a turntable and haven't used it since. My love of vinyl has been with me for 55 years, buying and playing, setting up my tables , matching preamps and enjoying the fruit of my labor. I believe my love of vinyl is a simple one, it stemmed from the hands on, need to tinker and adjust that I was born with, it's a very physical attraction that I just can not resist, it satisfies a lot of needs for me and in some way is that mistress that I maintain. My turntable is massive and so easy to look at, I can touch it and get more out of it, I can read about the artist and get info while I listen to an album, I can swap out a cartridge and change the tone and in the day the album covers served as a rolling tray to roll a joint. I love vinyl, but absolutely understand while others don't. I also envy people like uberwaltz that have and use so many sources, wish I could. What say you?
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lalitk
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Well, that didn’t take long...haters will always be just that..too close minded.

Vinyl is great, but the idea that its sound quality is superior to that of uncompressed digital recordings is preposterous. They sound different, and that's exactly my point....nothing more nothing less. 
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When I bought my first upgraded system it was vinyl or tape. So analog only. There are certainly things to like and dislike. 
What I found when jumping back in 30 years later was that vinyl reproduction had upped it's game considerably, although the Win Strain Guage at the time was eyeopening. That's a like.
MC carts with good phono preamps. Big like!
Rumble through subs. Dislike
Cleaning records. Like, it's like cooking a meal.
Less sameness from one artist to another. The biggest like as it reduces listening fatigue. 
There are likes and dislikes about digital as well, but that isn't for this thread.

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noromance
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MC comes out with guns blazing!
I guess sales are good and artists are ensuring they have new vinyl releases. The one thing I noticed at AXPONA and NY Audio Show was that the best sounding rooms or sessions were when a turntable was in use.  

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has2be
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Simple for me. I love the music. Grew up in the golden years of vinyl. Music , much of which either isn't available or isn't available in a quality digital offering vs the original sin. I procured a very large number of albums when others were selling for pennies on the promise of perfect sound forever. I never experienced the noise on the level some digitites over emphasize it at all playing vinyl.
Digital is very good now, finally, but when you already have the music on the original media, with the original recording to do so....it's not really about nostalgia. It's about the music. At least it is for me. 

Thats why I have a pretty good digital playback for all the music released digitally in recent years.
Both are great....I just feel more emotion in the music on vinyl. If some think that's nostalgia so be it...but I know it's the emotion and dynamic drive in the music vinyl has for me. Me personally, .......I've always believed none of us hear the same let alone the same preferences aural or visually. Choice is great, don't knock it, be glad you can have it.....

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