@jesus_phish: actually, if you are making an analogue copy of a digital recording, the recording process will lack the warmth that an all analogue recording and playback would deliver, but the medium of vinyl will naturally have a warmer characteristic, so there is a difference, really noticeable in bass, and electronic music, compared to a digital recording played on a digital player.
also an analogue system does not have it's limitations pre-set. computer playback, like a cd, has specific limitations and can't go beyond them without horrible results. a well produced vinyl - even of a digital recording - will push the limitations of the medium and use naturally occurring errors such as harmonic distortion to make the recording sound better, something you can't do with digital playback. pushing the volume on digital results in horrible distortion, but on vinyl the distortion has the space to sound good.
so the aesthetics involved are all audio-based and all worthwhile if you care about that kind of thing.
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