Hi Jeff,

Sorry, I beg to differ.
That's fine - it would be a boring world if we all agreed on everything!

I've got halfway decent analog and digital setups and it always comes down to the mastering. I've heard great and poor examples of each. And while I've always been thumbs down on computer playback, the recent Amarra player that now plays the track directly from memory is not only fantastic, but has really changed my thinking of what computer audio is capable of. And it's not terribly expensive either.
Again, no problem. I've heard some very good computer audio set-ups too, but none can hold a candle, sonically and musically, to really well recorded vinyl played on my T/T, or others I've heard of similar or better quality. All I can do is relate the results of my experience so far.

The fact is, in my circumstances with my system, I have recordings on vinyl which sound WAY better than anything on CD (very good though some of those are), even though I have a superb CD player and love listening to music through it on a daily basis. We're talking veritable 'night & day' differences between the best of the respective recordings, Jeff - it's not subtle!

However, YMMV

I don't have a "ritual" for listening to music.
Well, when you listen to vinyl, you take it out its sleeve, pop it onto your T/T and place the stylus on the record grooves: that, my friend, is somewhat of a 'ritual'!

And it's what I was referring to earlier when I used the word. It's also that type of physical interaction that's missing when one listens to music via a computer, and which I thus dislike with streaming music, because I enjoy that process.

I just enjoy it and I enjoy it just as much when played from a disc, a computer or a vinyl LP. I like them all. Nothing wrong with being romantic, however it's not the only way to go.
Yes I enjoy playing CDs, too, but for me it's nowhere near as much fun as playing records. I don't see this as being "romantic", but rather simply being more 'human', i.e. doing things yourself, by adopting a manual process, rather than a machine doing it for you.

As I said, I dislike the way some forms of technology have, to an extent, dehumanised us. It also encourages laziness in many forms. Quite simply, I enjoy doing things, rather than machines doing them for me. I also like to think for myself, rather than a machine doing my thinking for me! It's what makes us function as human beings, not robots.

I feel largely the same way about mobile phones, for example, which in many ways have killed the art of conversation, as people would rather send each other texts than actually lift the phone and talk. Jeez, I know people who would still rather text each other than speak, even when they live in the same house or are in the same room!! How bloody lazy and utterly crazy, not to mention inhuman, is that???

And let's not even mention how badly mobile phones have affected the ability of people to write properly with the correct grammar and punctuation, with the proliferation now of god awful 'text speak'!

Like I said before, don't get me started on this type of thing, as it's a major bugbear of mine

And I love having 7500 CD's on the Sooloos. Not only am I listening to more of my music collection than I used to, my whole family is as well. Nothing dehumanizing about that. The Sooloos has two full backups, so it won't be lost "in the blink of an eye with a software failure."
Nice one - I'm pleased you enjoy it, but it's not really for me. Each to his or her own, I guess.

Even if we did have a catastrophic meltdown, I still own all of my discs, so it would just be some time to rip it all again.
Yes, but in that instance how long would it take to rip your whole music collection on disc? I'm afraid I'd lose the will to live if I had to do that - it would likely take years!!

Nah, I'll stick to having a physical music collection I can put my hands on at any time and continue playing my LPs and CDs for the foreseeable future, thank you very much

Marco.