what he said. and the other one too.
it's the cool factor partly. Music aside it's a much better package to hold and look at.
The other thing is the difference between the way the analog music is a continuous spectrum, whereas digital music is a series of snapshots of the music, captured in time and played in sequence, but no matter how small the individual timeframes are, there are still the gaps.
Whether you can actually tell the gaps are there or not, I don't know. I've heard even mp3's of music played through fairly cheap earphones that sounded really great to me. It depends on what you're used to. If you had a top of the line stereo that you listened to vinyl on, and your ears were trained to that, you might hear that digital difference. Most people can't tell though, and even some musicians who were previously anti-digital have started recording that way for the convenience.
That is another point. You have to consider how the music was first recorded, in the analog or digital formats. Maybe Digital music sounds better through digital equipment? Or maybe analog helps to fill in those gaps.
Finally, there is the matter of natural compression. Compression adds warmth to the sound, and something in the way a vinyl record is physically laid out causes a natural compression and warmth to appear when it's played on a turntable. Cassettes are a whole different matter. That's analog also, but it's just for convenience, and cassettes are probably the least desirable sound of the three.
Vinyl is best for collecting though.
Hey, I have a question. I just got this on CD. Is there a vinyl version and is the vinyl version the one that sells for $100+ ? I paid a lot less than that. Might want to sell, but I had seen used copies listed for sale for over $100. I don't remember if those were vinyl or CD though.
I've only ever heard the mp3's of these songs. Should I open it?
getting ready to take off to Pasadena!