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Absolutely. The purpose of any recording medium or device is to as faithfully as possible, copy and reproduce the original material. CD is far superior in that regard by every conceivable measure. Dynamic range, signal to noise ratio, frequency response - all superior by a wide margin.

Vinyl is definitely snake oil. All it's got is nostalgia.

    
I'll agree and also disagree here.  From a technical standpoint you are correct.  CD is superior in every way.  Facts are facts and you can't argue measurable values.  From an implementation perspective, the way modern music is mastered has made a lot of music unlistenable (to me).  It doesn't matter if the technology is superior if the recording engineers are going to piss away the advantages with their inferior recording techniques.

It's like watching 480P content on a 40" 4K TV from 10 feet away.  You've pretty much pissed away every technical advantage that the TV had by how its being used.  Now obviously all CD's aren't brickwalled compressed into oblivion, but a lot are.  You have to take them on a case by case basis.    
    
I got back into vinyl for a few reasons.    

First, I like the way my table sounds.  Turntables flavor/color music much like a tube amplifier might.

Indeed it does - which is undesirable for a recording/playback technology. That's not its role. It would be easy for manufacturers to create a a DSP device which could do the same thing - and give you some control of the coloring - without having to resort to such a delicate medium as vinyl records. I remember being taught that the pressure density of the diamond needle on the soft vinyl is several tons per square inch! So apart from all the limitations, the vinyl is being torn up on every play. I remember treating my records with a chemical add-on in the early 80s in the hope of preserving them. CDs came along soon after which made the issue moot but I always wondered if it worked.