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CD's are OK now and I listen to more of them over the last two years than LP's. But I still find LP's more pleasant and am looking at a cartridge upgrade but not the whole turntable

No CD can compare with original vinyl.

About 30 mins. ago! I have spent about the same on digital components as my Linn LP12/Arkiv/ekos/Linto and it sounds SOOO much richer than CD. Plus there's a nostalgic attraction to an Lp leasurely spinning around, laughing at the frenetic activity of a CD player! Keep the Faith! (Ok, so I'm a 356 driver)

Unfortunately my turntable seems needing some servicing, so I stopped to use it. I have to find spare parts, and this is hard nowadays

Vinyl is still the Daddy. 14.. Bits of closest thing,to the analog Master. C-D IS TO THIN/LACKS RESOLUTION, AND IF IT RELIES ON THE OTHER COMPONENTS OF A SYSTEM TO MUCH TO SOUND GOOD!! .

After buying a good old Dual CS-604 table in college and keeping it for 20 years I broke down and bought a Planar 3. The several hundred albums I have sound as good (or better) as ever and are a real pleasure to listen to. I'm sure more than half were never released on CD anyway.

Since I took a swan dive into an opportunity to get a good deal on a Classe CAP-100, Sonus Faber Concertinos and Sennheiser HD600s a while back, I didn't have anything left for a MM preamp, much less a new 'table! So my lonnnggg-in-the-tooth Thorens TD-115 (from 1979) sits all by its lonesome, napping like Rip Van himself. And ohhh, my neglected album collection . . . as Chester A. Riley put it, " . . . what a revoltin' development this is . . ." Silly me! The next goal, then, is to squirrel away 'nuff cash for a new Rega, Pro-ject, etc. In the interim, I'm still considering the MM preamp for the Thorens. Keep your fingers crossed ATR's not necessary! Huh? ATR?!? Why that's Analog-Turntabular Resuscitation, of course. Sheesh, and I thought you guys/gals were the experts!!

I listen to CDs and have as many discs as LPs, but I still buy LPs and when I sit down for a long listening session, I invariably play more vinyl than discs.

I still have 5 records ("vinyl" record is redundant) for every CD that I have, and the records still sound better.

I don't care about people that say's that LP are only ticks, pops and distortion. I don't care what specs they are dragging forward, When I listen to vinyl I hear and feel so much more that when I listen to cd. If one can't trust his ears than he should not buy any new equipment on what he hear but on only on specs!

Last vinyl spun was Beastie Boys "Ill Communication" two days ago. It is not audiophile quality material, but one thing that is interesting are the cracks and pops, associated with dirty vinyl, added to the recording by the Beastie Boys. On a CD you can tell the cracks and pops are "fake," but on vinyl they will make you second guess your cleaning machine! But more importantly, you can really sink into the jams on the vinyl, whereas the CD version leaves you pushed back, listening to the CD high frequency bite (even after CD Stoplight).

A clean vinyl album is more natural sounding than a CD on the right system.

I purchased an 'audiophile' grade pre-amp during my first big upgrade from 'good' gear to audiophile level. It did not have a phono pre-amp section in it and with the purchase price of the gear I could'nt afford to add one. So the old technics tangential drive turntable was retired with aspirations of later bringing it out. Well, it has been 5 years, and I am now an audiophile 'snob' and could not snoop to listen to such a low quality piece of source gear. So even though I kept my Mobile Sound Fideltiy records, I don't know if I ever will have the gear to listen to them again :(

I LOVE CD'S, BUT I STILL LIKE THE SOUND OF THE LP IF IT IS A GOOD RECORDING AND A GOOD GRADE OF VINYL.

I can't imagine not spinning vinyl. I enjoy all aspects of the vinyl exprience: the hunt for rare gems, the discovery of great music for pennies, the sometimes great cover art, and the sound, the sound. Nothing currently available gives me the pleasure I derive from vinyl.

I play LPs practically every day.

I love my Oracle Delphi/Ittok/Grado front end. It is as dynamic and much more musical than any digital or other analogue source.

everyday allday

iam still a vinyl junkie!

Once a month I play a record. Snap crackle pop, the music starts, hey that sounds pretty good, then comes the inner groove distortion. After only 20 minutes I have to flip, clean the sylus and zap it with Diskwasher Zerostat. It is okay, but CD to me gets the nod 99% of the time, reel-to-reel and records get 1%.

I am upgrading and I intend to add vinyl playback within the year.

I listened to the Wallflowers on LP this morning before coming to work. I love listening to LPs, and prefer buying music on LP over CD. Gievn a choice of buying somehting on CD or something else on LP, I generally buy the LP.

Whenever I listen to my system I listen to vinyl records. Doesn't everyone?

I hate the clicks and pops of records. Early CD players did sound bad. Now I love my Theta Pro Basic IIIA with a little TLC.

Everyone keeps talking about SACD/DVD-A as the perfect audiophile medium. Why? We already have one. It's called vinyl.

I was given a turntable as a gift about six months ago, I had no idea how it would affect my life as an audiophile. Until this I was an all CD guy, but this vintage table had a great sound. The best part is I can load up on used records for a fraction of the price I spent on CDs. There is a lot of nice used stuff available and the music is what being an audiophile is really about (although a killer system helps!).

Never heard a CD player that sounds as good as my VPI TNT Jr. with a Graham 1.5T and Benz Micro series 2 Ruby H. Just Love It.

Well, actually yesterday. Most days, because LP's sound so much better. I guess I need a new DAC. But I have a DAC, and a DIP (which is great!) and D60, and still, the LP is so much better. Music just glows on an LP, especially with my new tubed phono section.

VINYL RULES !!!!

I played "I Remember You" by the Ramones.