beagleman
Major Contributor
Have a few "audiophile" friends over the last couple decades that just swear Vinyl sounds far superior to any digital format.Yes, vinyl sounds, for the most part, perfectly fine and is certainly 'good enough'. If I didn't have a choice I could easily live with it. But I do have a choice and when you actually compare them then pretty much any digital version is obviously better than the vinyl - both sonically and ergonomically. However, I do miss the lazy saturday mornings rummaging through the record bins at my local used vinyl emporium.
When finally able to visit a couple of them in other states over the last few years, and to see their fairly high end tables and set ups, yeah it did sound great for sure. It DID sound different than the same CD version of the several albums we tried out for sure.
But those changes were never able to be pinned down to it BEING vinyl, versus simply a different mastering or EQ changes their vinyl rigs imparted to the sound.
In fact, one of these friends, went as far as to later burn some of those vinyl albums for me, onto memory sticks in CD quality sound and mail them to me.
From my memory at least, it still preserved the Very similar sound his turntable had when listening to it live.
So was it digital/analog OR just different sounding vinyl and analog set ups that accounted for the changes??