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Good points. Just to expand, I find with instant on digital music I never really listen to it with as much attention as vinyl.

In fact I love everything about vinyl except the sort durarion of each side, but even that makes me focus more closely on the experience. I know I'll have to turn it over shortly...

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Vinyl is a completly different experience: the smell, the look(!), the age(!), the masting and care for the production, the cover(!)- these things matter.

I loved the ceremony of taking out a record, and putting on a turn table.

Yes. People think vinyl is for snobs (especially the silicon valley type) but they don’t seem to realize a) music went digial before the iphone (CDs) and b) most of them don‘t even know much music.

That is a good example of an elitist (or snobbish) viewpoint.

Really? You can appreciate playing, touching, looking at vinyl or watching vinyl beeing played out without beeing a collector or owning some. But it is hard for me to imagine somebody not appreciating vinyl and all the things attached beeing a true pop music lover. With classical music it may be a completely different story.

Defo snobbish. These are made up rituals that have nothing to do with the music.

All rituals are made up.

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