I remember when CDs first came out and it seemed like I was the only one saying it just doesn't sound right. To me it just did not sound right compared to the same songs on a record or tape, I couldn't define or explain it but it just sounded off somehow. It might have just been that I was just so accustomed to lp and tape sound, but to me the CDs did not sound better, ilthey sounded flawed somehow. No one back then ever agreed with me, said things like "well your half deaf anyway. I felt dumbfounded that everyone else considers CDs a big improvement.
I've seen the same discussion come up with others many times since, and the debate never seems to end, but here's a really interesting and long article (it even has a table of contents), that demonstrates that LP records definitely have a truer sonic signature (or whatever the proper term is) than CDs are able to produce
Hi-Fi Legend Says Vinyl LPs Still Hold More Information Than 24-Bit Hi-Res Digital
https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/09/hifi-legend-vinyl-information-digital/
Richard Vandersteen has spent decades building speakers that audiophiles recognize for their focus on timing, phase, and natural presentation. In a recent interview, he went further and argued that vinyl records still carry more musical information than today’s best digital formats. ... ..“It’s very obvious that there is more information, more of that spatial stuff going on in the analog one than there was in the digital one.” ... ...
He says there’s a fundamental engineering principle that explains this:
“Anytime you convert energy, there are losses. That’s an engineering fact. That’s a law of nature.”
Depended on the playback equipment. Also, a lot of pop/rock that got remastered was not done well and sounded line a tin can. Dire Straits did their Money For Nothing recording all DDD and I thought it sounded great, one of the first as I recall DDD.
I had Denon and Onkyo players in the 1980's and 1990's and they were exceptional.
Back in my youth I was quite the snob about audio sound, and I appreciate an audiophile copy of an LP. I had many for pop, rock, and certainly CBS Master Works copies. But the snap crackle pop of vinyl was awful.