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Originally Posted by gmku
It depends on what you want. I sometimes prefer the sonic perfection of a CD. I other times like LPs for better representation of the art work. These days new releases and remastered reissues sound very close, to my ears, in both formats (aside from the usual minor surface noise and occassional pop or click you get w/ viny)l.
And it depends on what you're used to. I grew up collecting LPs. Because I cut my teeth on LPs, CDs to me seemed sort of like a yuppified version of 8-tracks. Too small, too reductive, too techy. Plus a new vinyl LP just SMELLS so great. Go ahead, try it, take a big whiff of that thing just out of the shrink wrap and tell me it doesn't send a thrill.
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Oh yes. Something else I've noticed about vinyl - although LPs require a little more concentration to keep them durable, CD's being so small mean it's a lot easier to be negligible of them. Basically, I haven't got a single knackered record (apart from a Patsy Cline LP, but that was because I lent it to an idiot) while I have plenty plenty broken CD's.