My kids were talking about vinyl records making a big comeback. I understand from people that supposedly can tell the difference that vinyl is a richer sound or fuller or somehow more. It’s funny to me because as a kid I felt albums were so fragile and prone to little scratches that would lead to noise artifacts. Cassettes we’re ok but a bit hissy. When CDs came out I was in heaven. The best sounding one to me when they first came out was Peter Gabriel’s album from 1982. The drums on Lay Your Hands on Me were so clean and powerful. It was a game changer for me. I can’t imagine going back to a vinyl record.
My friend down the street is a guitar player and some kind of computer programmer (I still dont know what he does!) but he explained to me, CD's and digital music is just sampling. Its binary, on/off, a needle on a record is analog and catches every sound in between. In other words a song on a CD wont have the highest high tones or the deepest deep tones, we cant really hear this but it enables them to put more music on a CD etc. We're only getting part of the music, I'm not sure I buy this, but other people say, "yeah vinyl is a much better quality, even though we hear the pops and scratches etc" I think CDs sound great maybe I'm a robot and have binary ear drums!