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When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better?
Better? Than CD, presumably?As soon as I learnt how CD worked, I knew it was two steps forward and three back. Just not enough resolution.Actually listening to them (waaay back, before they were even for sale) confirmed my fears.It was introduced ... 
Best Record You Have Ever heard
Supertramp - Crime of the Century - UK 1st press. 
My personal experience with Direct Drive versus Belt Drive
Often wondered if the effect of belt drive (and analogue tape, to an extent) might be called "temporal dither". That said, it’s been proposed that DD’s might add their own artifacts (perhaps at flutter frequencies), which while at very low amplitu... 
New Townshend Rock 7 owner
Not forgetting the almost entire elimination of arm-cartridge resonance, of course. 
New Townshend Rock 7 owner
Some of you may be interested in how the trough produces the substantial reduction in bearing rumble and motor noise (i.e in the 20- 80Hz region) it does.It's because the stylus 'sees' this noise coming from both the plane of the platter/record an...