[Stu]

I started collecting three years ago. My attitude is I want to pay for music, so why not get the coolest aesthetic return for my bucks. The audiophile aspect is subjective of course - especially with anything produced in the last few decade - but to my ears anything from the 60s to 90s sounds far better. It's got its own atmosphere, vinyl sound. Not just old classic rock records either. I have all the Warp records stuff from the 90s, a lot of big beat, trip hop, ambient etc and the spatial dynamics and low end are all the bomb diggity on vinyl.

It's weird to think most people my age's general reference for music listening is those Apple air buds or laptop speakers. It's a tinny wall of sound, but the pop music has for years now been produced with that in mind.

To each their own and all that. But listening to albums is a hobby for me. When I do it I'm sitting down doing nothing else. Vinyl is bestest for that.