Vinyl is imperfect, heavy, fragile, and difficult to maintain.

The sound is objectively less precise than digital, and playback comes with surface noise, pops, and all.

Choosing a cartridge affects the quality of the sound so much that it can be an expensive part of the setup (and needles need to be regularly changed!).

Vinyl has a lot of drawbacks but vinyl is offline, private, and a cherished possession. The lack of dynamic is actually what I love about it.

I have 2 20years old record players (Technics MK2), a mixer (Rane TTM56) and Taruya Cartridges.

I love to play vinyls selections with very little mixing technique. I record each little session, and broadcast them on my very own little icecast server.

The Vinyl culture is a great one. We don’t always need what is the most convenient or the most precise. We just need what feels good to us.