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[AFTT47]

Numbers are important, all I'm saying is that a really good record on an excellent system don't sound crap, it sounds absolutely lovely.

Fine. But a digital representation of the same sound is truer to the original recording - without the degradation issues. So what is the point of vinyl? Nostalgia? That's fine too but admit it's nostalgia. Don't pretend there is any logical reason for using a recording technology which is demonstrably vastly inferior in every measurable way to digital techniques.

This reminds me of the replicator thing on 24th century Star Trek series. There's nothing wrong with honoring and preferring food grown, prepared and cooked by hand. But it's silly to pretend such is superior to what the replicator produces.

Vinyl records can indeed record and reproduce sound at an acceptable enough fidelelity level - but digital techniques are measurably better in every way. If you have some emotional attachment to the vinyl method, fine. But don't pretend it makes any logical sense.