Oh yes
Love vinyl.

I'm that quirky that if there is anything made before 1984 I would prefer to have it on vinyl.

Damn fine turntable too, a Michel Gyrodec. I mean, even the players themselves look awesome and look like abstract works of art rather than a Hi-Fi seperate.

Trouble is, you can't use any old shitty equipment to appreciate vinyl. You need decent quality seperates, interconnects and speakers. A crappy stack system with a crappy plastic player just won't cut it at all whatsoever.

With CD mastering, they cut the high frequencies off from beyond a certain range because they're outside of the range of human hearing, believe it or not.

As long as you take care of your vinyl, know what you are looking for, and scrutinise it carefully before buying (if second hand), then all will be well.

Also agreed witht the cover art too. Pink Floyd's "Animals" has lots of small detail lost on the CD booklet, and Iron Maiden albums look far better as a vinyl.

Personal fave album of mine is the War of the Worlds box set, numbered with poster, paperback book and extra 12". Now worth a fair bit, I am lead to believe.

I joined the Vinyl Appreciation Society group on Facebook recently too.
(Panteneman Isn't entirely sure why he bothered on, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 14:29, Reply)