My girlfriend loves her vinyl and while at hers recently I was allowed to select, touch and actually play a couple of albums. I was really disappointed with the experience.
As a 54 yr old male I grew up with records but used mainly tapes as a kid (recorded mix tapes and purchased) then quickly moved to CD’s. Based on this recent experience I think CDs are a way better media for a music experience. Excellent audio quality and an albums worth of tracks playing off one ‘side’
A lot of her newer discs seem to be on these heavy weight ‘audiophile quality’ discs and a common trend seems to be to split an album across a couple of discs. Having to flip sides/discs constantly really ruined the listening experience for me. I found it really jarring.
Many of the proponents of vinyl sing the praises of the whole experience and the process of playing a vinyl disc. My experience was pretty negative especially these new multi disc albums.
As someone old enough to have grown up with records the attraction of faffing around with them these days is beyond me but if some get pleasure from it then that’s fine. It would only become an issue if it adversely influenced the price or availability of high quality music. I don’t know enough about how the music business works to know the degree to which this is true. Anyone? My guess would be small but it is a guess.