CDs don't sound like anything - you can't hear the difference between a modern AD/DA system and a length of wire. When recorded and played back using good equipment, they're effectively perfect to the human ear.

Some people subjectively prefer the distortion imparted by vinyl, which is fine. Some people enjoy the theater of pulling a record from a big colorful sleeve and gently placing the needle in the groove, which is also fine. Vinyl isn't better - it's objectively worse as a means of accurately reproducing sound - but some people prefer the experience.

As parent alludes to, I don't think it's a matter of CDs sounding worse in an objective sense, but lacking an affectation of the medium that some people like in vinyl. Think about movies: ordinarily they're shown at 24fps. Higher framerates are objectively higher quality, but don't feel "cinematic" because they aren't what audiences are used to, and in some cases the additional detail makes special effects and makeup more obvious, diminishing the sense of reality.

From an information-theoretic perspective, a vinyl LP is garbage compared to a well-mastered CD. From an aesthetic perspective... people like what they like?

Multiple things.

If the needle is good and the record is new the LP has a better theoretical dynamic range - new record is important here as each time you play the record you physically wear it, so after a few playing it will not be as good. This is the only one that is inherently better.

LPs are sold to "audiophiles", and often have a different mix. The CD will often be compressed until there is very little dynamic range. Even when the record is worn it can still be much better just because the mix on the CD wasn't good in the first place. This is the biggest advantage to LPs, but it should not be overlooked as it applies often.

There's nothing. It's something that's been made up by so called "audiophiles" to justify heavy investments in equipment whose performance does not help with anything.

Our ears are degenerating with every year, but the older those people get, the more expensive the equipment has to be, otherwise they can't grasp the soul of the music etc. pp.

It's just an excuse, CDs are fine.

The LPs basically required a standard mixing, the people able to change it and do something against the standards that sounded any good were rare and knew very well what they were doing.

CDs can be mastered by anyone with results that aren't horrible. So a lot of people that wouldn't touch LP production do produce CDs.

i think he compared "poorly mastered CDs" to LPs and that's fair