I agree absolutely, and in any case I think that if you've got a good deck and a first-class vinyl specimen, there's sometimes not much to be gained in changing to the corresponding CD that your speakers won't mangle out of recognition anyway. In that position I'd buy a new recording rather than a CD I already knew - though as Ivan March pointed out, a lot of people felt otherwise and did set about replacing their collections with CD.

The point I was trying to make is that once the classical buying public - a particularly fussy niche market, as JackOTrades pointed out - had the choice between buying a CD and the corresponding LP, they overwhelmingly favoured the CD every time, as did the journalists, artists and critics. This is why there aren't any new classical releases on vinyl.

Amen to that. I have no objection to anybody's personal preference, only to spurious arguments raised in justification of something that shouldn't need justifying.

True - but when he does play a vinyl recording he only does so because it hasn't been issued on CD, and he never misses the opportunity to complain about it!