I read through the thread, all I want to say is thank you Victor for answering at least some questions after very long time. You deserve a "Good Guy Vic" meme.
It is not my kind of music but I listened to some songs and they're very interesting. Keep up to do what you like and what you enjoy, good luck in further progress and remember - when your album appears on some warez forum that means you're popular as fck
you're right, with analoge music there's just so many ways how to get into problems while carrying signal.
but - if you have the proper aparatus you can achieve much better and clearer signal than with digital. in general it's not very easy - like with tv/radio broadcasting, simply analoge signal got too much distortion on the way,...
but when you can build your own sound system with high quality cabling (almost perfect carrier) gramophones and amps vinyl will simply become the best thing ever. If you're electrical engineer it can't be hard for you to determine which is better in here:
vinyls are not worse because they are older, it's just if you want to get excellent quality, you got to invest much more than to your CD player but in the end it's worth it. Digitalized media brings lots of advantages, especially when carrying signal over long distance with affordable carriers. But you can't compare vinyl with CD music like VHS with DVD film.
What you can compare are newer amps using transistor technology with older or much expensive amps using tubes. As electrical engineers, we both know that transistors are just much better, get clearer signals than tubes with less distortion. Why then are tube amps so popular and expensive?
Simply because of the natural distortion they give you. It's like with film/digital photography. Film photos also have their almost invisible distortion - noise, different from digital photography - invisible with lowest sensor's ISO (with high quality sensor).
That's why people prefer tubes - cos they get you more natural sound, not so "artificial". But playing vinyl with reasonable quality sound system you get much better results than with digital media.
Vinyls are simply unicorns puking rainbow while flying with nyan cats. get over it.