So many of the older technologies never really faded away. At our music store we have over 13000 vinyl, tapes and so on all for sale...
I agree a lot of digital stuff sounds fake. You miss the sense of being in the room or concert. Make me a part of the musical moment not just a consumer of it.
CD recorders basically turn analog sound into 1s and 0s. When you play back the CD it reads the 1s and 0s and says this is what it should sound like. No translation is ever exactly the same. Not to mention records properly taken care of will last almost forever unlike digital info which is very fragile. That's why the library of congress has a lot of important info and speeches on analog disks. They use Nitty Gritty record cleaning machines to clean copies before playing.
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