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Nobody, including the author, is disputing whether analog is better than digital. Of course it is, when the analog recording is perfect. Vinyl records, however, as an analog medium do have significant drawbacks, even for the serious audiophile. If you're so insistent on having the music exactly as it was recorded get the master on tape. You can also reproduce much of that warmth that is induced by a record player by using a tube amplifier, which will generate many of the same harmonics. Again, nobody said CDs are better than the original analog recording. That said, there seems to be a lot of people here who think even CDs are compressed, which of course they aren't. There have been 100's of bets placed where an audiophile said he could tell the difference, and in most every case, where the experiment was done correctly, he was proven wrong. Here's just one such example: http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/vinyl/messages/765335.html It's called the placebo effect. Don't kid yourself ... it's an amazingly powerful effect, and if it makes you think you music is better than digital then more power to you, but don't take your prejudices as an opportunity to insult others.