I do. I play records at least 50% of the time.
And guess what? Vinyl still sounds
better than cds.
Of course, you need a good record pressing, turntable, cartridge set-up, phono pre, etc.
Alan, you need to dust off that turntable and do an a/b comparison sometime. You have forgotten how deep, rich and real vinyl sounds. You seem to only remember the flaws.
Yes, vinyl is a flawed delivery medium, but it is still %100 analog and conveys a quality that continues to elude the ones and zeros.
It is 2011 and digital
still cannot truly sound like the
best analog. It flattens it, hardens it and loses a certain punch, depth of audio field and realness... and for a lack of a better word,
soul. Why is that?
Go to any professional music or movie production forum and read what is still being debated about the subject (digital vs. analog).
Analog still wins out over digital. Film is preferred over HD video, tape/analog processing is preferred over digital.
One day digital may be the perfect medium for capturing analog "events", but for now it lacks something that the "math" has not fully explained.
And it ain't just nostalgia...
