Vinyl sound: Season to taste?

For a so called audiophile to abandon the ultimate tweaking format seems like another good man/lady lost to me. The satisfaction of getting a cartridge to sing. The thrill of taking home that first pressing. The ecstasy of shifting the turntable a yard and the sound changing.
The sheer hypnotism of watching that slab go round and round while you jig along to a Beatles song that you truthfully know is on the only format it should ever be heard on !
Best of all , it makes me smile and move.
I've spent 20 years trying to enjoy digital under all its guises.
I did blind tests and got advised by a good dealer to stay with records because every time a digital track was played my feet stopped tapping. Not only me , the missus had the same reaction.
 Add far as the much vaunted 'ritual' . Forget it. I do not like the faff of putting records on !
 If digital matched it emotionally I would have a good digital system without a moments hesitation. 
 Im going to get a few hackles up here but it's just honesty.
 I think a lot of 'music lovers'  who have gone digital have simply been swayed by convenience.  Worse .... they've forgotten the sound of music they used to have. 
 Another point .... It can't be very satisfying  to be an audiophile  when the kids outside the Spar are listening to an iPhone  giving out 99.9% of the quality of their beloved Spotify streamer system at home and 99.9% better than their CD player. 
 Vinyl roolz  !
Repent and be prodigal sons .
 I'll kill the fattied Koetsu  !
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There ya go.
I'll  play it as it should be played......  I'm  not renting a computerised  imitation from the billionaires. 

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You Just have got into it.
Jumped in with both feet by the looks of it.
But it's not a dispute for me. I'm Just giving a personal opinion.
 I'm right  though obviously. 

I used to record from vinyl to metal  Cassettes. Sounded great.
 You do make a good point , though more than a little condescending. 
 I suppose most vinyl aficionados  are now of an age where convenience is an essential rather than a preference.

Dolby was a mess weren't it ? Like burying the dam thing in a bucket of sand.
I recorded onto metal purely for sound quality.
They were expensive though. I think I was paying about £5 apiece for the best TDK's in the early 80's.
You could get two LPs on a C90 though. Ace for the Walkman !

In the 70's spent a lot of my time high on weed, the stuff then was cheaper than cigs, playing my cassets brings back so many good times.

Got 4 little fellows that have popped up in the garden, holding thumbs I can relive old times.  Legal to grow for your own use here, so what the hell. Sleep like a baby after a few puffs.

I am nearly 70 I do not give a Sh#t!

Yep the world is going that way.

Bozze turns most into aggressive assholes. Weed has the opposite effect on most. If I did not smoke it when dealing with my sister I would have killed the crazy bitch a long time ago.

One of my bosses used to smoke cannabis daily in his office and the smell permeated all round the store - we had coppers as customers too... The more he consumed, the more paranoid he became.

Now I'm only talking about my own experience and am not saying it's true of everyone but I smoked almost constantly from the age of 14 until I was 30 and achieved next to F*** all apart from owning a killer record collection. After giving up I now am 10 years from the end of a mortgage, own a little flat in Spain out right, I've travelled right through India from Kashmir down to Sri Lanka and have been to Afraica, South East Asia and the West Indies and am not far of being reasonably secure.
Having said that I'm hoping to semi retire next year to my place in Spain where it's legall to grow up to four plants so I'm thinking of growing some low THC weed to cook with and to just take the edge off..
On the subject of drinking not all people who enjoy a drink are violent nutters and I've met plenty of younger guys who smoke strong weed and are both paranoid and angry and don't mind a punch up so that's a flawed arguement. I enjoy a drink as does my brother and most of the older guys I work on site with and none of us are violent and turn into arseholes after a few.

Most of the guy's in their 20's and 30's at work smoke all day and believe me they're not chilled out hippies the drug of choice for most of those guys is cocaine it's perfectly normal for them to go out Friday, Saturday and Sunday on the gear, drinking like fish and smoking copious amounts. The drug taking of my youth involved a few E's, some hash and some good music but it's a very different world today. My view is the War on drugs is lost and was a hopeless, hypocritical waste of time anyway. Class B drugs should be legal and possesion of class A's a non criminal offence treated as a health issue and help and intervention offered where needed. Dealers of Crack, Heroin and all class A's should be treated very harshly IMO..

Anyway back to the thread for me records played on a decent record player with a decent amp and speakers just sounds so much better and so all the faffing around is worth it and as engine says can be enjoyable. Streaming services like Tidal are fantastic for discovering new music, trying before you buy the record and internet radio which I Love but I've had Naim streamers, Chord 2Qute and Hugo Dacs with PSU's, fancy cables and numerous very good streaming transports and though good they don't come close to a decent record player. At the moment I have a Chromecast Audio connected to a MF V DAC/V PSU and it's great for casual and background listening but if I want toi sit and get right into the music it's vinyl every time..

Of course.

What is this , Junkie Corner ? 🤪

I haven't smoked any dope at all this week. None whatsoever. No siree.