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I suppose it's a lot like the silliness about preferring vinyl records to CDs. Sometimes there's nostalgia about the snap crackle pop of vinyl, and I like the smell of the turntable, but there's no way that the sound of vinyl is better. And I own a thousand or two vinyl records.

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To be fair in regards to vinyl, it does sound different. And to some people that sounds better.

I've recorded my vinyl onto the computer. It sounds the same as the vinyl :-)

The problem with this is that all the cracks and pops happen at exactly the same moment whenever you replay the record; to a large extent, this is not so with vinyl, I suppose.

The rumble is different, as it comes from the turntable, but the cracks and pops happen at exactly the same time. You can see the defects in the vinyl that causes them - the vinyl surface is hardly pristine.

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