[aarmenante]

From a technical point of view I get why the argument is stupid, but playing a well pressed/mixed record has a visceral pleasure that is hard to explain. It's kind of like driving a manual car. Sure, it's dated and we've invented safer, easier ways to change the gearing while driving, but people who like experiences like that all know it's something more than a "hipster" indulgence. It's simply adding a level of complexity to something you love.

I could even argue it's something akin to the reason people use Vim or Emacs over JetBrains or Atom ha

[torrent-of-ions]

Except JetBrains and Atom are disastrously slow which is the only real reason for preferring one text editor over another.

[hashkb]

The manual transmission and vi are both different in ways that power users can take advantage of. (I use both of those, and digital music)