The saturation applied to a lot of pressings (which gives vinyl its supposed warmth) usually adds weight to the low frequencies and rounds off some of the high

The saturation applied to a lot of pressings (which gives vinyl its supposed warmth) usually adds weight to the low frequencies and rounds off some of the high frequencies so I can't really see that translating too well to something with such a wide dynamic range. It's far from a perfect representation of the recording. Perfect sound quality isn't really why you should be buying vinyl - there's far too many points of failure in the signal chain from the pressing of the record, the stylus, the preamp and the speakers. You'd be better off getting a nice soundcard and playing CDs or 24 Bit WAV/AIFF files from your laptop. Quote by John Peel. “Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don’t have any surface noise. I said, ‘Listen, mate, life has surface noise'”