Comments about ‘For the record: Salt Lake store owners record their fondness for vinyl’

"ITunes hooked up to a good stereo sounds pretty bad," Stinson said. "It's kind of like the soul of the music is gone. So much of the detail is gone, and it's not much fun to listen to."

I think it's important to note the problem of equating the sound of something like an MP3 file downloaded from iTunes and played on a player versus the sound available from a good CD recording played on a decent system.

It's not a question of the quality of analog (i.e., vinyl) versus digital recordings. I've listened to the best of both and a background in recording engineering to boot. I prefer digital because of its much better signal to noise ratio and its "portability". But, like all art, beauty is in the eye (or ear) of the beholder.

BTW, if these guys really like vinyl LP, maybe they'd like to buy some of the hundreds of really sweet ones that I have from the 60-80's. There are some real gems in there. :o)

When vinyl records were made they had a certain warmth and special sound, and some of that sound came from the music and sounds caused by the old vacuum tubes. The solid state chips have been unable to really duplicate those unique sounds and feelings. You will find that outstanding good quality amplifiers are still tube amplifiers but they cost up in the 4-10 thousand dollar range and only the wealthy can afford those. I wished I could still play that sound again. But it is good that a few stores still work with vinyl.