It is not my intent to start another cd vs vinyl debate but to share an experience I had. Vinyl vs CD has too many variables and subjectives to ever have a definitive conclusion.

Most of the Yes I like is on old vinyl that isn't in good shape, it was all bought used or freeby. So I bought the CD Yes, Classics, years back for when I get the Yes jones. This CD's sound quality was never appealing to me, it sounds dead or muffled for lack of a better description. Maybe the remasters sound better. Yes's early stuff seems to have a certain type of engineering sound anyway. Recently I bought a nearly pristine copy of Yes's, Fragile, for $3.00 at a record show. I cleaned with my record machine and threw it on the table, wow, I was just amazed at how much better this album sounded over the mentioned CD. I've had similar experiences with older albums, they just seemed to lose something in the transition to disc. I know remastering is big and sometimes it helps but on some albums although it sounds cleaner, it still seems like the remaster took something away, the soul of the recording. I am glad I didn't go crazy trying to replace all my favorite albums with CD. The ones I did, I regret for the most part. It should also be mentioned that some of my vinyl sounds like crap too, no matter the format there must be a good master to begin with, so my statement toward older albums on vinyl is just a generalization.