Quote Originally Posted by ruadmaa
I highly disagree that vinyl sounds better. I have a Pioneer PL540 turntable here that is using a Shure V15 type four cartridge. It certainly doesn't sound better than digital sound. I have a few hundred albums laying around here (I have collected vinyl since the 1960's) and quite frankly, it is painful to play them. Most of my vinyl records look pristine but when played are loaded with click and pops. I certainly wouldn't trade vinyl for digital. As an experiment, take one of your best vinyl albums and record it to a digital format and then play both back. You might be in for a big surprise since both will sound identical.
Sorry, I have to disagree. In my opinion, vinyl on a good set-up is better than the clinical sound of digital. I don't know much about your Pioneer turntable, but I can tell you that with my analogue set-up I get very close to my digital set-up in terms of good sound ... not to mention keeping that analogue warmth. Especially considering my analogue set-up is fairly low budget hi-fi and that the digital side of my set-up costs approx 3 times as much. I am going to be assembling a Linn LP 12 set-up very soon and I bet this will sound even better and surpass my digital. I fell into the trap of going digital and have amassed a big collection of CD versus vinyl, but I am going back to vinyl as my preferred listening choice.