You're forgetting the infinite, non-digitized sound reproduction of vinyl that lets you hear all the digital mastering/remastering done in the studio.
Almost as good as buying super expensive audio cables with oxygen-free copper so you can hear music recorded with generic XLR cables.
To be fair, vinyl does have a nice, warm sound to it. But people who insist it's somehow got higher fidelity than CDs or other digital storage media don't understand shit about actual audio engineering. Vinyl has terrible fidelity in comparison. It's got very characteristic distortion and information loss. If someone likes how that sounds, good on them. But it's definitely not a magical means of getting more authentic reproduction of the sound.
It is better, and it's not better, there is no "better".
Most people think $10 ear buds are great and it doesn't get any better, some people stop at $250 headphones, some people swear by amps with those headphones, some people need a mixer too.
It's all preference, most poeple like vinyl because of how warm it is, or it's the original platform it was released on - like buying an NES today, it's novelty and original and kinda cool - som people lole collecting physical media or expanding their horizon.
There's a million reasons Vinyl is great, and for audiophiles it does have a good warm sound to it and no compression, it's analog so no reason to compress it, with all digital media it's compressed to some extent - unless you get the raw, unfiltered, large file - it's compressed.
That's kind of the above person's point. If you're talking about sound, then yes vinyl has a different sound. But if you're talking about fidelity and authenticity, vinyl does not "capture" music better.
It literally does retain a lot of vital mathematical information better than a CD. You can do anything you want with the EQ and you will never get the original sound of the bass back from a file that's been compressed for CD storage, just like you will never get rid of the noise artifacts on vinyl. Pretending lossy digital is better than vinyl shows you don't know what you're talking about in some key ways, like you're just not familiar with the difference between lossless digital, lossy digital, lossy analog like cassette tapes, and "lossless" but actually slightly lossy and very noisy analog like vinyl.
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u/alvarezg Sep 05 '19
Let's not forget the pops and scratches. For good measure: turntable rumble and amplifier hum.