My girlfriend loves her vinyl and while at hers recently I was allowed to select, touch and actually play a couple of albums. I was really disappointed with the experience.

As a 54 yr old male I grew up with records but used mainly tapes as a kid (recorded mix tapes and purchased) then quickly moved to CD’s. Based on this recent experience I think CDs are a way better media for a music experience. Excellent audio quality and an albums worth of tracks playing off one ‘side’

A lot of her newer discs seem to be on these heavy weight ‘audiophile quality’ discs and a common trend seems to be to split an album across a couple of discs. Having to flip sides/discs constantly really ruined the listening experience for me. I found it really jarring.

Many of the proponents of vinyl sing the praises of the whole experience and the process of playing a vinyl disc. My experience was pretty negative especially these new multi disc albums.