Vinyl or CD?

I think it's a very subjective thing. In some cases, on good clean vinyl, I think it does, but not in all cases.

can you give a reason why? Because aren't the music on CDs supposedly digitally remastered ?

I find that a clean vinyl has a richer, warmer tone than CD. In such a case the music does sound better to my ears.

It's worth pointing out that music that is already available on CD can still be remastered. So the limiting factor is what is done in the studio to the record. Aside from that, I think the others have given you the right answer. There is something more magical to playing a vinyl record for the first time as opposed to a CD.

What about playing CD through Tube equipment, do u notice a difference - really?

Agree that the vinyl sounds warmer. I notice it mostly when there's a gradual change in the music, a rise or fall, instruments coming in and out, or when there's a fade or transition.

Well, part of it is electro-mechanical. The CD player has to do a DA conversion, and it may not have the best chip in the world. The CD player also has active circuitry in it, which may or may not yield sonic goodness (back in the day, the first thing you did with a top-notch CD player was replace the cheapest-bid output caps with tantalum caps).

OTOH, a phono cartridge uses very mature technology, with far fewer failure points than a CD mechanism. Much more under the user's control; easier to tweak. And I'm old enough (or old-fashioned enough ;-) to still have a love for the analog signal path (and all the phasing, resonance, etc. that comes with it).

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surely cd's will never truly sound better than vinyl because of the sound equipment you're using? what i mean is with cd's you're limited by your speakers, earphones? But i guess that could also be said with vinyl with the quality of the needle etc.

While oggling about vinyls, I gotta say, from digital, it's far easier to obtain that wide dynamic range, from dead silence to full-throttle, in a very short time (ez handling of fast attacks or steep slew rate), which gives performances impact.

And digital has much better low-end bass, I forget wha't the low-end roll off of vinyls, but digital, there is no roll off, the frequency response here is basically limited by your subwoofer. Perhaps when there was no CD, the mixing people went heh, why bother to put in low bass when the average consumer system can't reproduce it... not sure.