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

Have to agree with madavid0 in that this guy doesn't seem to know much at all about what he criticizes.If he's trying to explain why people prefer vinyl because they can play with the records and the record jackets, that is fine.  I play with mine.
If he is trying to explain why vinyl is better, it sure doesn't include reason of sound quality other than his constantly rendered subjective crap reasons. I just hate subjective arguments where the author takes his opinions of "rich sound" like facts. Give me a break, please.I love my vinyl and it can astound people. But it's not better.

Yes on reflection the article is much weaker than I originally thought and if I knew how to delete it I probably should. Still the comments here are better and more interesting and I'm learning from them.

Vinyl is a 100 year plus old flawed technology. People spend a fortune trying to address the flaws and still can never win because all records have flaws it’s just a matter of how many and how much.

The packaging is better than ever though for those who must own but you will pay for that.

Digital is much easier to get right these days.

ive been collecting records for years and still do when the price is right so there are few titles out there that i would ever need to buy new. When CDs came out in the 80s I invested in a good turntable to preserve the investment I had already made in vinyl.

These days when I have time to play records I work on getting them digitized and into my digital music library for easier access (and still top notch sound). That is a time consuming process though.

The article is written by a philosophy professor. No credentials AFAIC.

I gave up thinking one is "better" than the other, after hearing plenty of great digital setups. The only thing about them is, I still find myself comparing the sound of a track with the LP copy. f

That said, playing an LP still has an unexplainable magic, a "perfect" file  has yet to replicate.

A good turntable is always better than a bad digital....

But a not so good turntable will be beaten by a good digital system...

And if money is not a problem you could argue for the superiority of one or the other endlessly... And many people here do that endlessly... 😁

But for most of us digital rightfully embedded is at least on par with almost all turntable especially if the turntable system is not so well embedded mechanically, electrically, and acoustically...

In this case any good audio system rightfully embedded can beat one that is not, be it a digital one or an analog one....

For sure for a meaningful comparison the 2 system compared must be on comparable engineered design level...

A bravo amplifier at 50 dollars dont compare with a 1000 amplifier.....

In audio never-mind digital or analog, tube or S.S., nevermind the speakers categories, magneplanar, 2way boxes, multiway, electroacousatic, horns, no speakers can beat the room, be it acoustically embedded or not....

My own experience is that audio S.Q. is proportional to the rightfully embeddings controls and treatment in the mechanical, electrical, amd acoustical dimensions way more than solely the choice of an electronic component....

Few people say that clearly in audio forum, the reason is simple, people are way more devoted to the upgrading endless process and way less to the rightfull embeddings conditions, the fact is most people dont have the knowledge and the experience about that and most of the times even not a clue; and the sellers want to sell, whatever their own knowledge is, why stopping the upgrading process for the benefit of an audiophile experience at very low cost ? 😊 That goes without saying...

That is my experience, and i say here what i should have heard 7 years ago when i entered audio forums but never heard it.... Then i figure it out myself, with 2 intense years of continuous listening experiments with homemade created devices mostly....

Dont upgrade before embedding everything right.... Simple....

Analog or digital is only a red herring in the sea of audio forums....Dont go for the bait, think.....

Merry Christmas.... 😌