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What's Up With Vinyl?

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PECOAE:
I hear everybody going nutz over buying albums on vinyl, and I just don't get it.

Is it that much better than getting an album on CD and putting it on the computer at 320 kbps?

Somebody explain plz?

Spinless:
Sound quality is vastly superior. You get large cases with great artwork.

Edit: Tougher than a CD, can be re-sold too, possibly at a profit, whereas CDs are difficult to give away.

Jackie Blue:
Sound quality is somewhat superior, not "vastly".  Sound quality depends on having a good record player with good speakers, whereas you can get good CD sound quality on a much cheaper and easier to maintain system.  CDs are smaller and thus are good for people like me who have over 1000 albums.  CDs have spines that you can glance at and immediately recognise the artist/album, whereas records usually have to be flipped through and take up a ton of space.  CDs are portable.  You can play them in cars.  You can DJ a radio show with a small satchel of CDs instead of lugging around cartons of records.  It is very difficult to find many albums on vinyl.  Many albums are not even available on vinyl.

On the plus side, having vinyl makes you "cool".

Johnny C:
Being cool is the primary reason I buy vinyl, rather than the large artwork or fidelity of analog sound.

Spinless:
I can't imagine owning thousands of CDs. The sight of CDs makes me feel ill these days. I don't have a record player, and I don't own any vinyl. But cds TICK ME OFF.

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