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sumergo said:

maestro214 said:

What I don't understand is why people like Prof_Peabody have to make such asinine self-righteous statements about people who prefer vinyl over other formats. What difference does it make how people like to listen to music? What matters is that they listen to it and enjoy it anyway they want. There's no need to be condescending about it. I love my records, and I use digital media all the time too. Who cares how people listen?

What I don't understand is why people have to say that someone describing their opinion of the quality of vinyl playback is asinine, self-righteous and condescending.

As you say, who cares how people listen?  Listen to what you want, when and how you want, and enjoy.  Just don't think that all media are "reproduction-quality-equal" or that your ears are my ears.

Allow me to veer off the path here just a bit. Most people who say this or that is better usually don't understand what they are talking about. The way I see it, 1) two arguments are valid: Digital sampling (let's hope at least 2x, but that's already old school, but let's stick to the fundamental Nyquist) is the most precise way to reproduce sound, neglecting compression and other fancy algorithms. 2) While analog recording technically will capture all frequencies (low "warmenth" overtones mixed in unintentionally by other frequencies) limited by the analog bandwidth of the audio chain, they usually result in horrible distortion off vinyl.

In my opinion (just that, an opinion), 70's deep album tracks were captured very well on vinyl, but EDM and other formats are best left for a digital format.