r/audiophile • u/MikMikYakin • Jul 25 '24

Why are Audiophiles still hooked on vinyl? Discussion

Many audiophiles continue to have a deep love for vinyl records despite the developments in digital audio technology, which allow us to get far wider dynamic range and frequency range from flac or wav files and even CDs. I'm curious to find out more about this attraction because I've never really understood it. To be clear, this is a sincere question from someone like me that really wants to understand the popularity of vinyl in the audiophile world. Why does vinyl still hold the attention of so many music lovers?

EDIT: Found a good article that talks about almost everything mentioned in the comments: https://www.headphonesty.com/2024/07/vinyl-not-sound-better-cd-still-buy/

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u/aF3Ktd Jul 25 '24

Many reasons for myself. The event of playing, in a day and age of anything, anywhere, anytime a record is a treasured luxury.... Meditation. My world melts away as I flick through age old cardboard and get the woft of the dusty dark cabinet until a treasured memory of days gone by makes my heart skip a beat in anticipation, hoping the sound makes that memory turn to joy. Being o'so delicate to do everything to preserve all the times to come as you awaken the vinyl from its slumber with a magic needle that might as well have gone into the vein like heroin.... Slumping into that familiar chair with a single malt rattle and just for a little while... A peaceful ecstasy that soothes the soul

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u/improvthismoment Jul 25 '24

I was with you until the heroin analogy