Listening to the Blevins family vinyl copy of "Ziggy Stardust", i'm going to overlook the 1972 vintage surface noise and re-declare it as one of the greatest albums ever. Better than the CD which is something i rarely say. I used to dine with an old queen who had a $6000 stereo and some of the first CD's. While avoiding his repressed advances, i would rib him about the warmth of tubes and vinyl while he went to great pains and expense to go digital. His one factoid on turntables was this: the cartridge colors the bass response. That's why vinyl sounds better to the ear in some instances.
It's worthwhile to sit down for 20 minutes at a time. So let's keep spinning the plastic.