On 2006-11-02, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Serge Auckland wrote:
The converse is not true:- An LP cut from a CD will not sound identical,
whatever mastering it has gone through. There are those who think the LP
will sound better, that's fine as their opinion, but the fact that it
*is* different means that CD is a transparent medium (what you put in
you get out) whilst LP is not.

You can say this 'till you're blue in the face but it won't make a scrap
of difference to vinyl freaks. Vinyl *adds* realism to anything. Magic it
may be but how and why they don't care.

Also Vinyl allows people to create different sounds on the fly by moving
the record by hand forwards & backwards; something that cannot be done
easily with a CD. It is quite possible that the ability to move the
records is a main reason that vinyl is in demand since the records get
"ruined" and the sonic qualities of the recorded material doesn't matter.