Max Townshend stated that cd is better than vinyl , and he created the mighty Rock
Having said that a fair comparison would be with two equally priced cd player and turntable. Most of the time I hear people waxing over vinyl is when they have £5k turntable and £1k cdp. They feel its not worth spending more on the cd end as they have already made up their mind which sounds better.
Our education is wrong, it takes no note of the subtleties of human nature, it places more importance on the memory of an individual than how memorable an individual is. Bernard Sumner 1995