Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl

Mike
Are you serious on the compressed files streaming?
Sure if you stick to iTunes or Spotify that is what you will find.
But no serious listener stops there
Tidal, Deezer or Qobuz ALL have hirez streaming 24/96 and 24/192 with Qobuz being the best of the bunch so far imho.
You have to pay to play of course $ 20 to $24 a month depending on plan but then unlimited access to millions of albums.
I have already said my piece on analog playback but streaming is NOT to be dismissed so lightly today I am afraid.

@toicat, I too had the paper route and cut grass to fuel my passions, of which I had a few. Looked at that Pioneer 737 but wound up with the Sony STR7045 which was very close in power @ 30 watts and was $30.00 cheaper but loved the life I lived. @skyscraper, thanks for the laff, now get off my grass. Enjoy the music

“I hate CDs. They are a crappy collectible with crappy cases that crack when you sneeze. Little paper folders you can’t read that tear when you try to get them out”

@mijostyn,

I am going to keep it short n sweet since this thread isn’t about CD’s. It seems you haven’t seen or heard the XRCD24’s. They are not cheap but worth every penny in terms of sound quality, which is stunning in every aspect.

I think I’ve had a dozen different turntables in my past and have an album collection of 40 years. I just sold my Hanss T-60 tt and everything associated with it except for my albums, which I’m selling now. Just because you buy an album doesn’t mean it will sound good. Some of the best music and most of the worst sounding music comes from analog from a tt. It boils down to recordings.
During the past several years in the form of hires/SACD/DSD/MQA, I prefer digital the majority of the time. Also, the latest dacs are far superior to dacs of just a few years ago.
A lot of vinyl people state they prefer vinyl to digital because they can look at the album liner notes while listening. Have any of these people looked at or used Roon? Probably not. Roon gives you much more info and at the same time gives me current updates on the artist and current tour stops.
The old digital used to be very harsh and it still is if not played on decent equipment. Digital will always be more quiet and have more dynamic range over albums. 
The biggest vinyl drawbacks for me were:
Most albums are from the past, most of the newer (last 20 years) jazz and rock artists I listen to don’t produce vinyl,
albums are noisy over time, it costs substantially more to get great sound out of vinyl, and the hassle of the maintenance.
The best sound I have heard from vinyl have come from good quality mono pressings, much better sounding than their stereo pressings

@rbstehno, 

Great post. It all comes down to the original source of the recorded media. Vinyl being the oldest format has some of the best recorded material. I found many recordings on Tidal/ Qobuz and XRCD’s that are well recorded and very engaging. 

The key here is to have a decent system, be it analog or digital. Some of the responses I have seen here are boiling down to their ‘resistance’ for a change. They are probably ‘afraid’ what if I end up preferring the streaming over LP’s 😊