I understand that, there's a certain ritual to playing a vinyl that will appeal to some. Objectively from a sound quality perspective it's the same thing as plo

I understand that, there's a certain ritual to playing a vinyl that will appeal to some. Objectively from a sound quality perspective it's the same thing as plopping a CD or playing a (correctly compressed) file from your computer but the ritual and potentially the nostalgia make it significant. I feel the same way with videogames: plopping a disc in my old PlayStation feels "better" than playing on an emulator. You get the sound of the system, the composite noise on the TV. It's not rational, it's actually generally a worse experience than using an emulator, but it feels like home. I'm perfectly fine with that, most of what's fun in life is effectively pointless. What annoys me is when people make up pseudo-science to justify their tastes. Analog sound being warmer is nonsense, you can master a CD to be as warm as you want. CDs effectively have the range to reproduce anything we can hear[1], you could record a vinyl playback, master it on a CD and it'll sound exactly the same. [1] Okay, technically the human ear has a higher dynamic range than a CD can reproduce, but that doesn't really matter in practice because in practice you never want to master a track where some parts are as loud as an airplane taking off and others are as quiet as somebody whispering at the other side of a stadium. And it's not like vinyl would fare better anyway, that's mostly an argument for the audiophile nuts who claim that 16bits per sample is not enough.