CD Got Absolutely Crushed By Vinyl

If we could have master tape dubs we wouldn't bother with either.
Given good recordings, in terms of sound naturalness even $500 turntable set-up will sound better than any digital, though.
This subject keeps coming as if there was anything unclear. There is no debate, only poor hearing in some cases and commercial interests.

chakster, you are talking to the wrong crowd, they don't listen to Vysotsky and so cannot possibly even comprehend what you are saying. Nor do they theoretically understand that for as long as humans are humans and not enhanced humanoids digital will never sound as good as analogue because there is a conversion and certain things are lost and distorted. Problem of digital playback mentioned is another point but I consider it almost irrelevant compared to the above.

I do speak a few languages. Vysotsky's ballads are timeless and are going to be sung and listened to in 500 years and later.
Tape sounds best not vinyl. But I have to listen to cds too sometimes because that music was recorded in digital. Can be listenable. Digital sounds better on vinyl than on cd, by the way.

No need to read anything when you can hear. And if you can't hear it doesn't matter, anyway.

chakster, I didn't like your jazz funk. Vysotsky is so much better, it's not quite music, though, it's poetry accompanied by intentionally out of tune guitar.