I am still not convinced that vinyl is inherently better than digital (although it may be better than CD after jumping through the filtering hoops you need to avoid aliasing around half the too-low sampling frequency).
For me what vinyl gives is recordings that were mixed for serious listening on a good system in a quiet room or with headphones
From a pure signal to noise ratio, CD blows away standard vinyl hands down. But it does have a different sound and in the signal loss to background noise, it has the ability to hide imperfections that were part of the recording process. As such, a bad mastering will sound better on vinyl than it will on CD (or digital), yet a very good master will take advantage of CD or digital.
It is sort of like speakers. A cheap set of speakers can make just about any quality of recording sound OK, but a good set of revealing speakers will make a bad recording sound worse. is that the fault of the speaker or should you be pointing the finger at the source?
