Just an observation from a few raving lunatics...
I live in a family of classically trained musicians. We have over 50 feet of vinyl LPs (I don't know how many thousands that is, but it's quite a few), and the vast majority of them are CLASSICAL recordings. We also have shelves and shelves of cassette tapes and cds, both old and new. My mother, who has a master's degree in violin performance, is ADAMANT that the most faithful reproduction of instrumental sound (especially strings) is found on analog recordings. She describes even well-mastered digital media as "lacking depth" in the tone, and sounding "metallic." A friend of ours took a recording from an LP and encoded it to a 320 cbr mp3. Upon listening to the LP and mp3 in succession on the same sound system, my mother could immediately tell which had been digitized. So while I'll agree that, while electronically-produced/recorded sound on new vinyl or new cds may not stand up to the portability of mp3s, there may still be something to be said about the sound of an analog recording vs. a digital one.
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Just an observation from a few raving lunatics... I live in a family of classically trained musicians. We have over 50 feet of vinyl LPs (I don't know how many thousands that is, but it's quite a few), and the vast majority of them are CLASSICAL recordings. We also have shelves and shelves of cassette tapes and cds, both old and new. My mother, who has a master's degree in violin performance, is ADAMANT that the most faithful reproduction of instrumental sound (especially strings) is found on analog recordings. She describes even well-mastered digital media as "lacking depth" in the tone, and sounding "metallic." A friend of ours took a recording from an LP and encoded it to a 320 cbr mp3. Upon listening to the LP and mp3 in succession on the same sound system, my mother could immediately tell which had been digitized. So while I'll agree that, while electronically-produced/recorded sound on new vinyl or new cds may not stand up to the portability of mp3s, there may still be something to be said about the sound of an analog recording vs. a digital one.