Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
Audio wise it is superior to vinyl as CD has none of the nasty frequency cuts that vinyl has, and of course you get no phasing problems.
Plus most of the music is recorded digitally anyway, either onto dat or CD, so the argument that vinyl is analogue and sounds better is a little bit of a no goer these days.
Who records techno to 1 inch tape and then masters to vinyl to keep all the stages analogue?
no one.
I was going to say something along these lines, but previously such statements have put me in some fairly hostile situations with vinyl purists - but do the research...

People who moan about the lack of low end in CDs - well, THAT's bollocks. CD audio is sampled at 44.1kHz - so according to the Nyquist theorem (in short: you must have a sampling rate of twice the highest frequency present to avoid adding extra harmonics) they can take any frequency BELOW 22.05kHz, with no lower bound. Compare this with the fact that bass is actually rolled off from a recording before pressing to vinyl (so the needle doesn't jump all over the shop) and then re-added when playing - which is why you need a preamp for turntables.

Then, if you look here you'll see that "The range of hearing for a healthy young person is 20 to 20,000 hertz" - so even the high end should be fine.

Past that it's just a case of bit-depth.

PS I love records too, I'm just not afraid of new things either.