I would have thought the Thorens to have superior sound quality, is that not the case.

For me, I started with vinyl before anyone could imagine CD, so I'm used to it. There are things in my collection that never came to CD. My collection was already good sized and I couldn't see replacing everything. With that said I did come to a cross road where I asked myself if I wanted to continue keeping this collection and continue with a turntable. This came about when I began to add what I'd call true high end stereo gear to my system and my old Pioneer TT became a weak link. I had already gotten rid of my tuner. After borrowing a Rega turntable and just being blown away that vinyl could sound that good I decided to continue with my LP's and sunk money into a decent turntable rig. I am not going to debate which is better, CD/TT, I like them both. Like you if I'm tired I will throw on a CD for convenience but if I have the time and energy I will spin some of the black platters. If I had known vinyl could sound this good back in the 80's when the CD came about I sure wouldn't have jumped on the band wagon so soon. The discontinuing of new releases on vinyl would have forced it eventually though.

The turntable does have a nastalgia and art form to it, doesn't it?