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I so can understand you! I love analog! I love my LP player and the warmth of its sound. And as you, I still like film photography. It‘s a different thing, different artform and it takes more to use it. I am even looking for a 16mm film camera. Just love the look, the feel, the sound…
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I don't see why that is a dilemma or why one even has to choose sides.
There are some poor digital recordings and some excellent analog ones, and some excellent digital ones and some poor analog ones. Likewise movies. The right person can do a lot with the technology. I think digital technology, film or recording, has come a long way and in may ways surpasses analog technology nowadays, but technology is just one aspect. For me, it's not an either/or question, in fact, I don't even see it as a conflict. Use the technology that best suits you to get the results you want.
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No dilemma exists. To claim so is futile.
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LOL. So when 'senmut' writes "maybe this comes a tad late", that's, like, yeah - how about 27 years late! 
The article starts with the premise that "everyone seems to see the CD as the ultimate form of musical presentation", which in itself is kind of funny, as apart from very niche collectors like us hardly anybody is using CDs anymore.
There are some other things in that article that are simply not correct, such as "In truth, not only can LPs sound as good as CDs, when properly mastered, kept clean and played on well tuned equipment, they can yield much better sound than CD. And I don't just mean the celebrated analog warmth, either".
There is no sonic advantage an LP has over a CD (let alone high-resolution files), but there are many sonic advantages a CD has over an LP.
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It is not about pure sonic advantages or disadvantage, but a different listening experience plus in case of analogue photography an entirely different knowledge. That is what makes it special.
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Lps are more problematic overall( whoops who's put jam on it).
They are being marketed as cool this time round. So you buy lps and you are, therefore, cool.
The general ( thick) public buy into this in order to fit in ( Baa! Baa! Come by, come by).
Also they cost as small fortune. And anyone ( in these hard times) who's consciously happy to be ripped off needs their head felt.
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Have a good LP player, a proper head and needle and LPs sound wonderful.
Yes, LPs are in at the Moment. I do not buy a lot, but still have a many from the days when there were only LPs and no one even remotely thought about something like a CD…
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Have a good LP player, a proper head and needle and LPs sound wonderful.
I do and they don't.
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It is not about pure sonic advantages or disadvantage, but a different listening experience plus in case of analogue photography an entirely different knowledge. That is what makes it special.
That's true, and in the end: music should bring joy, so however one enjoys it is "right", and if one enjoys LPs, the feeling and smell of vinyl, putting on a CD, that "touchdown" sound of the needle of a well calibrated turntable, the fact that it's now full listening time for 15 to 25 minutes before the side is over, than that is the "right" thing to do.
I still have hundreds of LPs, so I know how it feels, I used to listen to them too.
I'm just wary of claims to sonic superiority for the medium per se, as that is demonstrably not so.
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Oh no, it can not have sonic superiority over a CD, but a lot can be made with superb devices and care to the LP. I just like to have a go and put a LP on the turntable from time to time, plus some of my Jazz LPs sound fantastic, I do not even want to replace them.
But the go to device at home is my CD player, no questions asked.
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