On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:18:29 -0800, William Sommerwerck wrote:
Words fail me. Another who can't or won't hear the intrinsic
faults of vinyl.

I've compared 45-year-old LPs to their CD transfers, and they are often
remarkably close. LP /can/ be a good recording medium -- it just isn't a
very good playback medium. Good LP playback costs about 10 times (at least)
what good CD playback costs.

There is only one situation where I've found vinyl superior to CD,
but it had nothing to do with either medium. I've had CDs made from
20 year old master tapes that had a terrible S/N due to the age of the
tapes. The LP was superior, but only because the LP aged better than
the master tape used for the CD.