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?
tooblue
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 😊
Uberwaltz, thanx for the update. I have not paid much attention to it. I only steam Pandora in the office. It is free if you don't mind an occasional ad. 
Lalitk, I did not say anything about the sound, just that I don't like collecting them. All my optical discs have been transferred to the hard drive. I took them all to Bull Moose Music and traded them in for....Records! $1500.00 worth. How much fun can you have on a Sunday:)
Mike
Funny you should say that as I too stream Pandora when on the road from my hotel room via laptop, stream quality really does not matter too much via crummy laptop speakers and low volume...lol.

But for the serious listening in the main home rig then Qobuz has really upped the ante imho.
Latitk, I have absolutely no problem with digital. My front end is entirely digital. Has been for 20 years!  My phono amp even runs through a Benchmark ADC. I buy high res files from HD Tracks and Acoustic Sounds on a weekly basis. But, I collect music. To me streaming is not collecting. IMHO Records are a better collectible than hard copies of digital files. 
Here's one for you. You could get a Reel to Reel and record the streamed files in real time. Now you have me thinking....