It's a matter of taste, and distortion.
Analogue distortion is mildly palatable, digital is not.

I fully believe that digital can render a better approximation of a source than analogue (and that's ignoring things like non-linear reproduction in vinyl, etc). But the problem is that a lot of engineers seem to compress and clip the tits off modern recordings. Vinyl has limits to how strongly this can be applied.

It's a shame that a lot of digital recordings seem (to me) sound shitty. More people should take notes from Elliot Mazer. Heart of Gold is one of the best sounding cd's I own, I hear the SACD/DVDA thingy is even better.

Also, you miss the point that VINYL SMELLS BETTER.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:25, 2 replies)

and when you take it out of the sleeve
you get a charming static crackling sound
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:54, closed)

The reason a lot of digital recordings sound shitty
is that it is much, much, much cheaper and easier to make music using all this digital technology therefore there is a greater amount of cheaply-made, bedroom-produced crap about than when you had to get cleared and funded by a record company before you could get a disk pressed.

Anyway, what has analog and digital distortion got to do with CDs and vinyl? You shouldn't be hearing any distortion from the medium if it's well produced.
(MrChimp previously Monsieur, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:35, closed)

You shouldn't be hearing any distortion from the medium if it's well produced.
That was kind of the point. Most digital productions are shittily produced. Often it's the big names that make an arse of it as well. go and listen to californiacation, it's clipped to fuck.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 18:06, closed)