CD's or Vinyl?


Gun to your head, if you could only pick one, which would you choose.  As nostalgic and sublime as Vinyl can be I think I'd have to go with Cd's.  Just seems cleaner and more pristine to me.

And You?

 

klimt

I abandoned vinyl a few decades ago and never looked back.  I prefer CDs and streaming only; primarily for the sound and convenience.            

Im another vinyl fan......CD's sound much more mechanical.   ...a definite difference in tonal character as well....all Ayre /Vandersteen system with Ortofon Winfield cart.

"People who don't have experienced actual concert (classic, jazz, pop, whatever) usually say that analog (vinyl) is better or true to the music."
As someone who has gone to at least one, sometimes two or three concerts a week, I could not disagree more. Vinyl is far closer to the real thing.

+1 @saugertiesbob 

I have always found the vinyl revival maddening, given the inconvenience and expense of vinyl.  The album covers beat CDs and that’s it.

  Streaming is great.  My LPs were destroyed in a house flood in 1985.  I was frustrated with vinyl at the time and welcomed CDs except that I was broke, could barely afford a player , and since it was years before I had disposable income and budget classical CDs were released, I basically listened to the radio 90% of the time.  Streaming would have been a Godsend.  However now I own a few thousand CDs.  I’ve ripped a bunch but the software for music storage works poorly with classical.  Qobuz doesn’t have many of albums that I want.  And there are constant big box releases at around $2/CD.  So my heirs are going to be stuck with lots of the silver discs