My comment on Dale Dougherty's Radar O'Reilly website:

"As a recent convert BACK to vinyl, I appreciate the warmth and humanism that I hear in the pops and scratches. My new old 1970s era stereo components that I found on Craig's list and at the local recycler play my used vinyl records - no new vinyl for me - in ways that seem to fit the music I enjoy especially, the garage and psychedelic rock from about 1965-1970. I don't think it sounds better, it just sounds good to me. Everything I write about on my Blog - blog.vinylrecordarchitect.com - is heard on old vinyl, the records played and enjoyed by others before me. I like the sense of continuity and the acknolwedgement of the passage of time, the equivilent of patina in old wood floors."

Check out the other comments on Dale's peice at his website:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/the-sizzling-sound-of-music.html#comments .