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Last night. Leo Kotke's Burnt Lips and (old original MFSL) Abbey Road.

I have a collection of 1500 LPs and still growing (modestly) each year. My Linn LP12 is still sounding fine although an update and new cartridge are due this year. I listen to CDs through my Levinson 37-360 its a collection of music.

It's 98% of my daily music fix.

Many of my friends are experiencing "purger remorse" with regards to discarding their records and turntables in the '80s and '90s.

After my turntable stood in the basement for two years, I gave it and my records away a year ago. I bought most of my digitized records again as original CDs.

i listen to my LPs almost every evening. I really enjoy being able to buy new high-quality pressings as well as scouring Goodwill stores.

Unable to listen due to broken turntable, but having just recently refurbished a pair of Epicure 11s in the market for either turntable repair or a new one to start again playing my LP collection, which will bolster my CD collection as there is very little overlap. Also, I think LPs sound better and some of the ones I have cannot be had either on CD or via download.

Although I agree that vinyl does represent high-quality audio, it comes at too high a cost these days to be enjoyed by all but the most dedicated consumers.

Today, and every day almost. I never let go of my LPs, even through the 1980s and 1990s. The resurgence of remastered audiophile pressings has made me glad I sprung for a decent turntable. I just need to get set up so I can USB my favorite songs on LP that I don't have on digital discs to get them onto my iPod for listening at work . . .

In the world of "sound reproduction," a new, clean vinyl record on a high-end system can sound very remarkable. Better than digital? That is for the listener to decide. I listen to digital mainly due to convenience of transport and storage.

Still the best sound, hands down, all the time.

I have a pretty decent vinyl system that is now just sitting in a closet along with a decent sized collection of LPs. My main music source today is my Squeezebox 3 running into my Theta DAC. The access it gives me to music at full CD quality more than offsets any real or perceived quality difference compared with vinyl. I just listen to music much more than ever before. I was a rabid audiophile for many years at a time when vinyl was all there was. I remember yearning for the day when something easier, more robust, and less noisy would come along. I too was disappointed by early CD playback. But I'm convinced the problem isn't so much the medium as the quality of the master. I've heard enough really good sounding digital recordings to know that we are a long way from realizing the full potential of CDs on an everyday basis. Contrast that with vinyl, where everything has to be just so, and even then ticks and pops, warps, mistracking, and audible degradation after just a few plays remain a big problem.

I have many original LPs that go back to the 1950s through the 1980s. Why would I not listen to them? Their quality is as it is—and except for the absence of things like wow, flutter, ticks, and pops, their CD counterparts (if even available on CD) sound pretty much the same. You simply cannot polish a turd.

I haven't played a record in at least 10 years. What I don't understand is: if vinyl is making such a comeback then why hasn't Capitol reissued the Beatles?

I'd be spinning even more vinyl if its vagaries were more openly addressed in the audio press. Vinyl is almost universally acknowledged as being hands-down musically superior to CDs, but my experience screams that about the half the time it is inferior. Some discs can't seem to get out of their own way, producing a weaker signal than others. Are some records pressed with a shallow groove? The list of surface phenomena is long but finite. If audio can develop a vocabulary describing sound it can develop one describing "pops and pings". Is that short-lived single channel collapse of the soundstage due to a bad pressing or post-pressing mishap? Does a wedge-shaped stereo stylus carve away the relatively steep sided groove of a mono record? How much of the variability of replay has to do with VTA angle? Vinyl is presented as a panacea, and lordy I want to believe, but the reality can be noisy and lo-fi. Which problems are fixable and which are endemic?

Not only do I listen to vinyl, but the tunes in my iPod were are downre'd 44.1 WAV files from 24/96 recordings off my records.

Louis Armstrong Plays King Oliver: no matter how good optical discs become, there is always something visceral and immediate that can only be found in vinyl.

Sold my Linn LP12, realized how old a design and how much better there is out there. Have not decided on which one yet, leaning on Orbe, SME 20, Transrotors...the list is endless. There are so many good turntables out there that I am glad I kept my vinyl collection during the '80s & '90s.

If it were not for vinyl, I would just watch TV and surf the net. SACD is excellent, but I already have most of the good stuff on vinyl. Vinyl has saved my 40 plus year love affair with recorded music.

Yesterday, at Manchester (UK) Hi-Fi show there were a lot of turntables Roksan, ClearAudio, Project, VPI and even some classic Technics SP10. I then went round to a friend's and listened to his Garrard 301 and some of the vinyl we had purchased at the show!

The ritualistic aspect of playing vinyl, which requires more care and attention than CDs do (like cleaning and turning the record over) and therefore requires a greater investment of time, small but significant, tends to make me concentrate more on the music.

I probably play a record 3x a week.

I want to listen to as much vinyl as I can now that my new-old rig is up and running again. I have spent more on vinyl in the past year than all digital media combined based solely on how real the music sounds than on digital media. SACDs and DVD-a's are great so are well produced red-book CDS but nothing touches vinyl sound for me. My friends are amazed when hear the difference.

While digital media have dominated my music collection for the last decade or more, I was beginning to gain interest in obtaining a better turntable to take advantage of some of the great out-of-print music for sale out there. An overseas move canceled that order—one doesn't realize how much vinyl weighs until one gets a moving estimate! Before I left the 'States, I sold a chunk of vinyl and what I couldn't sell went to a good friend. It's doubtful that I will ever return to vinyl at this point. While I sometimes miss the sound of vinyl, good digital equipment is fine for me 99% of the time. (That other 1% is the stuff that I can't find on CD.) I never miss the noise, the cleaning nightmares, or the warped records, however!

I listened yesterday. I just got a new preamp so it had a no phono section so I was listening to it. Now it's time to upgrade the TT. The B&O 8002 is only 23 years old...but it still works!!! Original cartridge too!

would love to get my hands on some vinyl since I am an up and coming audiophile. I feel it's essential.

Last night actually, as I am not getting back online late at night. 90% of my quality listening time is spent to vinyl. My Linn Sondek has outlasted multiple digital front ends, so I am not going to bother saving up for an expensive cd player that still won't sound as good. Meanwhile, replacing the stock power cord on my EAR 834P phono preamp with a Shunyata Venom was as effective as a four figure upgrade anywhere else in my system. Vinyl Rules, Mikey for President.

Still cannot find anything that can reproduce sound as naturally as a pristine record.

I got back into vinyl about four years ago. At first, I just wanted something simple to play my old record collection that hasn't been played since 1988. Now I have spent way more on vinyl playback equipment and records than anything else. I buy way more new vinyl than CDs.