Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"

Thank you for sharing. I have to agree with the article and his love and attraction to vinyl. Very well written and thought out. 

FWIW, a major flaw in article regards sonics -- the author's exclusion of lossless digital.

From the article: "And while there are distinctions within digital formats, I use the term to cover MP3s and other digital lossy files and streaming services....It’s key to note that the sound limitations in digital formats almost always concern the compression at their nature....Because digital formats are compressed lossy files and are not played by a physical instrument upon a physical format in the same sense that a record is by the needle on the stylus, on the arm of the turntable, through a receiver and speaker set, then this quality of warmth is absent in digital formats."

My experience is that high resolution, lossless digital produces many of the qualities the author celebrates in vinyl. That said, I don't have the two in my system to compare. Other comparisons between vinyl/albums and the immaterial digital files of streaming/hard drives is interesting, too.

It's written by someone who wants to explain why vinyl sounds better without knowing why it is so, and so pads it out with philosophy and a partially-understood discussion on digital. The superiority of vinyl doesn't have anything to do with the openness of grooves allowed instruments to express themselves and resonate, it's about the superior dynamic performance which contributes to sense of "realness". Why does vinyl mastered from an analog source have this superiority, I don't know. Possibly it's related to time domain resolution which digital is bad at. It's okay to just admit you don't know why exactly vinyl performs better than digital in some ways.