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If I have a choice, vinyl is alwaysthe preferred and better format.

Sorry I heard enough pops and clicks 30 years ago. Just like tubes, vinyl is for those whose hearing is gone. No Highs

Unfortunately, I believe that there is far too much hype surrounding the sound of vinyl playback. In particular, I find two flaws. First, vinyl is a very awkward medium with which to work in terms of size and fragility. Secondly, I have found CD players which I believe play music more dynamically and musically "correct" against a pitch black background with absolutely no surface noise. Oh, no. I might have opened a Pandora's box. Mikey, are you there?

I still have more LPs than CDs, though there is probably more total time on the CDs. I like to get as close to the best from my LPs, so I have a good turntable and cartridge, and my preamp has an excellent phono preamp. I have CD reissues of some of my favorite performances and they usually sound as good or better. On the whole, I find CDs sound better than LPs. On the other hand, I see no reason to replace LPs I only play occasionally, and of course, many of the performances I have on LP are not available on CD.

I use CDs for convenience and for exploring new artists and repertoire. However vinyl has an amazing luxuriousness of sound and thus I tend to save playing LPs to the quiter times of my life when I can fully enjoy the experience and thus the music.

Get it right with even a moderately priced system and you know why people still love their vinyl.

Frequent vinyl listener

When poised with the choice of spending valuable and hard-to-come-by time listening to music, it only makes sense to spend it as wisely as possible. Thus listening to the best sound and music available. So I always choose vinyl! Then I don't feel I have cheated myself out of quality listeninng time. On those rare occasions when I do have extra time I will explore some of my other listening choices but not very often! Now for background/working-out music, even satelite radio would work!

Well, I played all my old Christmas records last month. Before that, it would have to be my fairly regular Deja Voodoo listening marathon: I still can't believe Canada's greatest sludgeabilly band isn't out on CD yet...

Vinyl rules, always will. I also buy new releases on vinyl.

Several hundred LPs, maybe a dozen CDs. I give the CD format 5-10 more years before it goes the way of the dinosaur.

My Dual dates back to the mid-'70s as do some of my LPs.

All vinyl, all the time.

My vinyl rig isn't integrated into my main system. I use it to transfer albums to digital.

On my two-channel system, I only listen to FM, CD, and a Squeezebox. Why would I want to listen to the snap, crackle and pop of vinyl? I'll be glad when this little retro audio fad is over.

Vinyl rules always and forever!

It has been months since I listened to a CD.

Vinyl is the best. I primarily listen to classical music, and, though inconvenient and requires the right toys, vinyl sounds absolutely the best. Smoother, more real. Digital? You can chop into the smallest pieces, it still is dead

I sold my last turntable in 1989. I have been tempted to buy again, but realize it would be entirely nostalgic and have sofar managed to resist. I do have a hand wound watch which meets my need for emotional attachment to times gone by.

My current priority is music in surround. I would like to have a turntable in a separate two-channel room, but I don't have the space or the money.

Listened to Heart's Dreamboat Annie and the Beatles' Love with a new Dyn 20xl - for me it was very very nice.

Genesis' Trick of the Tail. I've got a vintage Technics 1300 DD Turntable w/Ortofon Concorde Cartridge. CDs are nice, MP3s convenient, but vinyl rocks!

It was to test an old receiver I cleaned up and did some repairs on earlier this past week. Sounded great! I love analog sound!

I have tons of LP's and enjoy the sound along with my SACDs, DVD-As, and CDs.

Also changed the playing hardware last year to a Class C turnatable and MC cartridge. Beats a Class A DVD-Audio and both cost about the same.

To be fair, I've spent a year researching and auditioning systems to replace my (no laughing) 22-year-old, once state-of-the-art, pre-CD Naim amp and preamp. My Linn Sondek turntable will remain and I can't wait to plug it in to my new Meridian system (amp, pre-amp and CD 800) with my RudiStor headphone amp and 701 cans. Now I just need to find speakers here in Shanghai... D'oh!

There's no reason digital formats can't sound just as good or better than vinyl, at considerably less expense. The market just has to demand it.

I'm trying to think of a day that goes by when I don't spin the black circles. As I write this, I'm listening to U2's 1992 album Achtung Baby. Not U2's best album, but my original '92 vinyl pressing still beats all things digital.

Nothing compares with a LP cover.

Saturday night. I have to admit it was not much of an audiophile experience. I was listening to old worn out 45s from my youth. Neither the music nor the fidelity were sublime, but I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than listening to digitized music.