[webkike]

This is crazy, because I'm pretty much too young to remember a time when phones ever sounded good. The reason I prefer text to call isn't because I don't like to talk to people - I've just always found call quality to be utterly trash. Maybe this is part of the reason the younger generations prefer texting.

[rmason]

The superior sound of vinyl is making a comeback as it is 'discovered' by a younger generation.

Can landline's be that far behind?

[cbd1984]

If you care about audio fidelity, as opposed to the "vinyl-ness" of the sound, vinyl is worse:

http://www.mcelhearn.com/do-vinyl-records-sound-better-than-...

http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Myths_%28Vinyl%29

Obviously, if you want the most vinyl sound around, vinyl is the only way to get that. However, if you want maximum fidelity to the original audio source, vinyl has inherent limitations later formats do not.

[jacobush]

True, but those limitations made it so, you had to have a decent mixing engineer do the mixing job. Nowadays, many CDs (which are supposed to be non-compressed) are actually crap mixed.

[webkike]

True, a lot of my friend have vinyl now. It's fun to listen to, generally more social. You can make a thing out of listening to vinyl much more easily than you can by playing music off your laptop speakers.

[sciurus]

What if you hook your laptop up to the same speakers that you hook your record player up to?

[webkike]

You're not actively shuffling through a box full of tangible objects to find what to listen to.