The eternal discussion about the question "What sounds better: CD or vinyl?” is still under today Hifi-a hot topic of conversation for fanatics.
One thing is certain: records do not have any technical advantage over CDs, with the exception that CD players require more technical effort to play the CD than turntables.
What is surprising, however, is that the actual LP is at its peak and perhaps also at its end point, but the playback technology is constantly being improved.

As a little explanation before we continue with the pros and cons:
With analog transmission, constantly changing voltages are transmitted, whereas with digital transmission, numerical values ​​are transmitted that correspond to the voltage values.

In any case, it is clear that the neutrality of music reproduction cannot be determined directly by the turntable or CD player, because there are far too many criteria to be considered for that. These would be e.g. B. the mix, the microphones used and last but not least the own, used Loudspeakers. If this doesn't bring the music across in a relatively neutral way, the best input signal is useless.

Of course, the record era also had an impact on people.
In the 80s, owning a turntable was a must, if you still owned one in the mid-90s, you were disconnected from the current music world and if you still own one today, you benefit from the enjoyment - or just the emerging hype about LPs and vinyl player. In 1990 twice as many CDs were sold as LPs and the most important companies in the phono industry officially announced the "death of the record". As it turns out, a big mistake.

But where is the advantage for many people in the good old record?
After all, it's more expensive than a conventional CD – not to mention the price for reprints.
For me, the record just seems more authentic. The good feeling of putting a large, black disc on a spinning platter and seeing how the technology works is simply better than putting a smaller CD made of polycarbonate in a drive, which closes and doesn't insight into how the technology works. Another advantage that can be derived from the previous one is the possibility of composing your system individually. A CD player I put it in a safe place, plug it in and everything works. With a record player, I have the opportunity to use every single component, be it the drive, the tone arm or the pickup system, to change and thus work towards my personal taste in music playback. It also appears to have a higher resolution than CDs (but please note the existence of SACD and DVD A).

Unfortunately, 99,9% of the time, only the older generation appreciates this. Today's youth simply describe it as "obsolete" and rely on MP3s.

Although I also belong to this young generation that listens to MP3s on the PC, this is simply because I don't want to keep changing CDs! But I also appreciate the qualities of the record, especially when I say "sounds higher resolution" etc. My experiences in the "digital or analog?" area refer to Klang-Experiences with a good Accuphase CD player and a high-quality analog system, which includes a Kuzma Stogi Stabi Reference with 1-point-supported arm and an Altec A8 Loudspeakers with a B 511 studio horn and two-way passive crossover.

But there are also disadvantages of the record. Die-hard CD listeners won't switch to vinyl that easily, as even the slightest crackle could anger them. For others it is part of it.
The question that needs to be clarified, of course, is: is the same data used for today's LP recordings as for CDs, or is there a tape machine running at the same time for the recording to disk?

But we mustn't badmouth the CD. After all, it too has its advantages.
These start with direct access (just imagine not being able to fast-forward or skip a song quickly) and last but not least end with the very good sound quality. Already at the beginning of the CD era there were and still are many good labels, including ECM. BlueNote and Verve. However, especially in the production of pop music CDs, not so much attention is paid to tonal properties and dynamically reduced low-fi mixes are created, which the average listener with MP3 player enthusiastic, but disappointed the hi-fi fraction. But the industry is partly to blame for this.
Because in order to protect their masterpieces, scrap data is considered Copy protection also pressed onto the CD, which has a major impact on the quality and, last but not least, the compatibility with some drives.

A final conclusion would be that both media are doing well in today's co-existence and have their fan base. So there is no need for a direct comparison, but one basic idea in the back of your mind: the music is still in the foreground and not the dogmatic back and forth about what sounds better!