As Hifitommy asked, what turntable/arm/cartridge were you using? Were your LP's cleaned and pristine? Or maybe you simply prefer the CD! Yes, that may seem incredulous to a lot of us but who are we to question your ears and preferences?

I actually went backwards with storage mediums. My parents had old beat up LP's and I heard that sound but when I was old enough to acquire a collection of my own, the CD has displaced the LP as the consumers medium of choice. I bought CD's. As a musician, I was painfully aware of how far away they were from the sound of live musical instruments but I suppose subconsciously, I reasoned that it was problems with the recording and playback of the discs.

When I first heard vinyl done properly, I was absolutely floored! FINALLY, violins sounded like violins, guitars like guitars, and saxophones like saxophones without the added distortion of what I had heard on CD. Rare in my collection is the CD that outperforms the same LP. I've found myself repurchasing numerous pieces of music I own on CD with the vinyl version and a direct comparison reveals that the LP usually sounds much better.

I'm told that there is nothing within the CD recording or playback process that would add distortion to CD's. Perhaps that is so but if it is, recording engineers are producing inferior product these days. As it stands, I can't really say that one medium is superior to another but I can say that in my experience (and I now own a few thousand of each medium), the final result is that the LP is more musically satisfying to me, more "live" sounding to me and more accurate to me. Your experience may vary.