Vinyl is a way of life!

This topic has really caught my interest so I "stumbled" upon a vinyl rip of MFSL UHQR 'Dark Side of the Moon' and 'Sgt. Pepper's'.

I must say, the musicality of both these rips is absolutely outstanding. There is such a warm and involving presence that I don't see on the 'regular' discs that I have of these two albums.

Another observation is that the images on the vinyl rips really float right in front of you, especially with vocals.

If this is a good indication of where vinyl can take me, then I believe that my rig is really missing something special at the moment.

And so you see my situation. Ripped vinyl still sounds better than the commercial cd releases. The technology of digital recording can meet the challenges of capturing vinyl. My problem is getting the commercial cd releases to sound as good.

I got rid of vinyl in the 80s because of the "new" format being so much better. Technology wise, digital wipes the floor with vinyl. Subjective listening pretty much agrees that vinyl sounds better. (Removing the pops, tics and skips as topics against vinyl)

The dac that can do things right for commercial cds are coloring the sound. If the commercial cd sounds right, how skewed would be the vinyl rip?

I guess the solution is to find a dac colored to meet the needs of commercial cds and stay away from vinyl. The investment is too expensive for a couple hundred favorite lps when I have 10 x more cds/digitals. If I was in my 20s, I'd switch back to vinyl.

Listening to my tt now and the sound is just thicker, more music, livelier. The police sounds stale on cd, just too thin but on my tt the sound just jumps out at you. Nice and big sound. Regarding the original question, i love the sound of my cal labs cd player but there are just some recordings that sound better on LP. The one i go back to is Sting's dream of the blue turtles. I had that on LP years ago and loved it, and on a real cheap tt/stereo. Then i got the cd and i just never had the same feeling listening to the cd, there was just something missing. Now years later, i've recaptured that feeling again going back to LP.