As to Vinyl, the LP12 Akurate extracts the best from vinyl, but it has become clear that some of my older LPs are "played out" and although sounding better than early CDs are not as good as re-mixed streamed versions. But I still buy vinyl... I will not be buying any more CDs!
I wonder about this. Music or indeed speech recorded direct from the mic and compressed losslessly is technically much nearer the true sound, so I guess when you say you prefer vinyl you are saying you prefer the distortions produced by pressing plastic and replaying using a vibrating stylus. Perfectly reasonable thing to do - personal taste matters hugely in music.
That said, I am not a hi fi buff being happy to listen to mp3 tracks via earbuds down at the gym. And I have never believed in "old". The world moves on, everything gets better, technology triumphs whilst old is just that - old.
