USA Today: Music lovers pursue technologies to return to high fidelity Options

[jamesbaud]

http://m.usatoday.com/article/tech/52963362

I thought this was interesting.

[kraut]

Now there are people who admit that Vinyl is technologically inferior to CD but still prefer it because it add some pleasant harmonic distortion

It is not only that, vinyl technology permits relatively easy tweaking: cartridges, tonearms, mats, phono preamps (not all of them make an audible difference, but might look good on your rig)
which cannot be done with the same effect as with cd or PC playback.
Also, a vinyl rig can look more stunning than anything else in audio.

I know, I have four TT still in operation and two more in the cupboards), among them a Transcriptors Hydraulic Reference Turntable, two Thorens TD 125 with different arms and a Technics SL10.

I usually listen to the PC server most of the time, but sometimes I feel the need to do the vinyl ritual: clean the LP, put it on, and drop the arm and listen. Plus the artwork on a 12" Lp has so much more impact then the display on the monitor or on a CD jewel case.

[Porcus]

two Thorens TD 125 with different arms

Hm, none of which seem to look like mine. Lots of them here: http://thorenshistorypage.tripod.com/ .
Some even equipped them with a tangential arm: http://www.wired4sound.net.au/sources/thorens/thorens.htm

Mine looks a bit like this: http://www.retrohifi.co.uk/thorens_125.html . With SME 3009. Last seen fitted with an Ortofon MC-30 Super (not even a Supreme) ... once in a different millennium. But selling my vinyl? Naaaah ...