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by qq66 3984 days ago
As a vinyl enthusiast, I find claims of vinyl's superior "sound qualitY" (whatever that means) to be laughable. A CD can clearly outreproduce a vinyl even the first time you play the vinyl record -- by the fifth time you're playing the vinyl record it's clearly inferior from a technical perspective.

The thing that's fun about vinyl is that it feels more like a physical artifact -- each one sounds different, the album art is bigger, it's been around for a few decades, etc... that's why I like it.

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Oddly, I like the smell of the vinyl. In it's own way, it's like the pleasant smell of a book.
Not to mention that watching a circular tile spin at a rate slow enough to actually track with your eyes has a certain beauty to it.