Digital Versus Analog Listening

Last year I joined the growing ranks of people who have made the return to music on vinyl. There is much debate in my family as to whether I’m a hipster or will soon be eating dinner at 4 p.m. and wearing chest-high pants. I have been persuaded that the analog sound imprinted on records makes a “warmer” sound, which may be the result of a bass sound that is less accurate than what is recorded on digital music files.

Vinyl simply sounds more real, more alive, more human to me than some flat, very precise digital…