Why do some people buy and listen to vinyl records?

[ProfessorGAC]

40. Got You!

I thought you were applying both characteristic to both.

Now i get it. I'm one who strongly believes that this is a matter of preference, and the science doesn't support analog being superior to digital. But, i can certainly buy that they sound different, and then it becomes a matter of taste. At that point, there can be no right or wrong. It's just what A likes better vs what B likes better.

I admit i'm the opposite of you in this regard. I like the "bite" of CD and the lack of hiss. Given that i did quite a lot of sampling in the earlier digital days (think post Fairlight/Synclavier where you didn't have to be a millionaire to own a sampler) and all that stuff was 8 bit and around 26k. So, i certainly heard the distortion and aliasing if not done right. By the time the tech got to 16 bit and 48.4k those artifacts pretty much disappeared as a concern.

So, i can see where digital was inferior, but CD's were never at the low resolution, low speed sampling rates. Hence, i liked the hiss free high end. Others, presumably you among them, like the slightly warmer sound of LP. (I read some time back that this is caused by subharmonics of the high frequency phase canceling part of the highs on play back. Don't recall where i read that though.)