Frankly, I don't get the whole vinyl obsession of late. For years in the 70s and 80s we (my family) suffered from pops and hisses in our music because of the imperfections introduced by vinyl and magnetic tape.
There's no
practical argument but people don't generally listen to music for
practical reasons, they do it for entertainment, and selecting the record, looking at the cover, taking it out of the sleeve, placing the pick-up, the noise of the lead-in groove - even the crackles and scratches are all part of the "show" - and there's nothing wrong with that.
Personally, I prefer clicking on a playlist and having hours of uninterrupted music without fiddling around with delicate, dust-magnet records every 20 minutes - but I can respect that some people feel that lacks the "magic"... although for my generation there's also "magic" in having a week's worth of music on a SD card the size of a fingernail and hearing it
without any dust and scratches, which I guess millennials/gen-z/whatever have grown up taking for granted. When I were a lad and vinyl LPs were ubiquitous, I was fascinated by a wind-up, 100% mechanical 78 gramophone which I had as a "toy"...
Unfortunately, some people - customers, manufacturers and reviewers - insist on making up pseudo-scientific nonsense to try and claim that the sound is somehow objectively "better" than modern digital, or refuse to understand that the vinyl "sound" is largely due to completely mangling the original recording to fit the lousy dynamic range and frequency response of the medium (and if you
like that sound just use an equalizer to mangle your digital recordings).
Still, spending
$60,000 on a turntable (esp. as it looks like you could get an
original LP12, that would actually have some 'vintage' cred, for a fraction of that) is just obscene.
