I've Stopped Buying Vinyl - But I'm Buying More CD's**

**.....with the very rare exception of collectable investment-rated albums, and those with an irrational sentimental value.

I've really just gone past the point of supporting vinyl issues, and a lot of the threads and posts on here and elsewhere back that up.

* EVERY issue and re-issue is drawn from a digital source. Why buy an inferior format that's already a generation further away from the master?

* The QC in all steps of the vinyl production process is shit.

* If, miraculously, a pristine vinyl issue gets through, Hermes or your uber-friendly Post Office will ensure that it get's fucked-up in some way.

* CD's are super-cheap in comparison, and more readily available.

* CD's have a broader dynamic range than vinyl. Fact.

* In essence, vinyl is a piss-poor 12" slab of wannabe CD requiring surface-contact playback, thus producing surface-noise output.

* Pound for pound, vinyl set-up's just can't hope to compete SQ-wise with a good CD Transport and DAC combination.

So....what's the point?