Reply #96: I've worn out about ten Dark Side of the Moon Vinyls

[Cronus Protagonist]

And I had high level gear. In fact, the better the gear, the clearer is the rumble wow and flutter you hear. I could buy a new album today, listen to it once and the very next time I listened to it, it was diminished, and on and on. I think it took about maybe no more than fifty plays before I'd be buying a new album, and at least one new needle a year, and still they were nothing compared to the crystal clear quality of digital recordings, which are also more durable, don't diminish no matter how many times you play 'em and don't require a special washer to sound perfect. Vinyl only sounds perfect the first couple of plays, and only on high end gear, in contrast.

I lived half my life with vinyl, half digital, and I'm an engineer. High end digital is way better, clearer and more powerful than high end vinyl system, and the difference becomes more and more apparent with each play as the vinyl changes every single time it's played while the digital files stay ever young.

Obviously you like the noise of the old systems and I prefer clarity. Diffrent strokes and all that...