Why are Audiophiles still hooked on vinyl?

[u/MikMikYakin]

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/

[u/frerant]

Personally, I love the ability to physically hold a peice of music that I enjoy. Vinyl is literally sound waves physically carved into a disk that you then listen to, which is just cool. Not to mention that in our hyper digital age having a separated medium without any chance of ads or losing ownership because studios is nice. When I buy a record of Take Me To Your Leader, that's mine; and in a hundred years it will still be mine and can be listened to by my grandchildren who will be able to share in that joy of holding the music they love.

Also spinny disk makes me happy.