Still not gettin’ the vinyl revival thing. I understand it supposed to be a more robust sound than digital but vinyl is still suseptibale to heat and wear no?
Suceptible
They should make albums from Teflon....................
I'm part owner of a company that caters to audiophiles, and even I think vinyl is too much work. Love the sound of Midnight Train to Georgia on vinyl though...
Reasons vinyl is better:
--You interact more with the music. Putting on an album, then flipping it over 20 minutes later means you pay more attention to it. I put on a CD or stream something and I find I don't engage with it musically the same way. My wife says the same thing.
--You can argue about whether it sounds better--people do--but you can't argue that you can't tell there's a difference. Call it what you want, "more rounded," "less chattery" whatever, there's a difference between analog and digital that you can detect.
--It's more fun to poke into shops, looking for something, discovering things ("Hey, it's a copy of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust for 8 bucks!") than it is to just search Spotify for something.
--12x12 cover art!
As for digital being less susceptible to damage, there's something called "CD rot"--the plastic coating degrades, and the silver layer that holds the data gets damaged. Manufacturing quality varies wildly. And sure, vinyl can warp with heat if you do something dumb like leave it in a hot car, and they can wear, although with a properly balanced tone arm that's not much of a problem. I have 60 year old jazz LPs that still sound great and 20 year old CDs that sound like crap.
“still susceptible to heat and wear no?”
And continual dust build up on the stylus, staic and pops, etc. That backgound hiss and crackle, back when I could hear, was soooo magically gone when i finally got a CD player.