Buying new vinyl?

You can buy some good quality albums at ELUSIVEDISC.com. Although I will say try and find ORIGINAL used records from garage sales , friends, family, also, Used book stores, or a record convention. Most stores are getting pricey but you can still buy great records for 6 bucks or less from stores like Euclid records. ( stores in ST Louis, New Orleans)
The hunt is half the fun after all. Most new records sound like crap compared to something made in the 80's or prior. Its just to bad the art of record making is a long way from what it once was.

Of all the reissues I have bought, Speakers Corner and Analogue Productions usually provide good sound. It pays to investigate each album before buying.

I'm going to take a swing and say my hypothesis on why some people prefer vinyl to digital. Before I begin, let me state I like vinyl and have a big collection.

Having said that, I think many prefer vinyl for a few reasons.
1) It is the sound they grew up with and use as their reference for recorded sound
2) Vinyl has a much higher sound floor than CDs. CDs can be a little to accurate and people find that glaring. The noise level of vinyl masks hard sounds, it is like having a white noise machine on in a noisy office.
3) Not sound related but LP covers are great and add to the music experience.

Recording artists have nearly all moved to digital for numerous reasons, including it being easier, but the quality of digital is more accurate. Every time you re-record the analog master you lose something, with digital that is not the case.

It always amazes me that there are so many lp's available on ebay which are still unsealed, some as much as 40 or more years old. Many are the first pressings, I buy a lot of them (probably more for nostalgic reasons). Sure some pressings are better than others and not quite up to the quality of many newer audiophile pressings of today but the hunt is part of the fun!

Mike

Scvan,

Read my lips my friend. Digital sounds flat and uninteresting by comparison to analog. It isn't glare, at least not all of the time, it isn't record covers, and it isn't surface noise. This is echoed by most of my audiophile friends. I'm not alone. If you like digital, all I can say is lucky you.