in my mind, this favoritism for vinyl has most of the time been a thing belonging to "purists".
at the time, i used to take excellent care of my vinyl discs, and invariably, after a few playings, i would hear faint or weak clicks and other kinds of noise floating all around my music room: on the sides and in the back. also the noise level was always distracting, specially when listening at realistic levels.
when CD's came out, i did not wait long before jumping in, and the sound was very good; better, in fact, than the black discs.
my turntable was of very good quality, with a Shure V15 Type IV.
it was great in some ways, but not up to the lovel of CD's.
YMMV.
