These recordings (outside of direct-to-disc) are the most realistic sounding that have been produced in the long-play record era.
Then you aren't paying attention. Even in discussions where polar positions are taken, there is plenty to learn if you are open enough to listen... Ultimately, if you aren't interested in the discussion, you are free to leave
More to your point, very turntable sounds different, arm, platter, mat used, and then the actual impact on top of all of those colorations is what cartridge you selected. Like cooking, we all have our tastes and the spices we like to add. I enjoyed my turntable days I grew up in this hobby with vinyl. Linn, SOTA Sapphire, Oracle, then the Luxman PD44 and a few others, etc. All brought area different sonics of a given recording, and my cartilage change could be analytical, to warmer or full body, MM or MC both had a different sound to them. Which is what makes Turntables so much fun or a pain in the butt...smile! It's like rolling tubes we all have are favorites.
Taste is variable but how our ear/brain system interprets sound is quite similar in the entire earth's population. For example in all people higher ordered harmonics are interpreted by the ear as harshness and brightness- in fact all distortions are interpreted by the ear as some form of tonality (the early 'crispness' of digital being an example). We use the higher ordered harmonics to sense sound pressure, louder sounds can mask quieter sounds (the basis of MP3 files) and so on.
The problem is what is raw/uncooked at natural? That is to each his own what they feel it is. Smile!
True but vinyl it does not exist, like in digital it does not, which one you enjoy does exist, but what was heard in the studio we will never know. I look at Vinyl like Electrostatic speakers, never over dynamic, limited reproduction but what they do well they do like no speaker can, I owned them for 10 years, now take my open baffle speakers, much more of everything, dynamics no contest, but compare them to Quad speakers you say the Quads were more Vinyl sounding and the open baffle more digital sound, much more upfront, dynamics across the board from highs to lows even, and to my ear more real but perhaps not as enjoyable at times as a turntable for relaxed laid back music. They both have their good points and where they lack, be nice to be able to combine both and some CD players can do it somewhat, the newest Marantz SA-10, Luxman 10X, and the newer Esoterics and others some of the Sony ES series were superb in the mid '90s and of course the SCD1 of the early 2000's. But like Vinyl it goes back to the mastering quality and production care, lots of music today has neither, so to me it does not matter the format poor sound is poor sound. Listening to Marius Roberts Piano Jazz Trio "Cole After Midnight" on CD with my open baffle speakers and I've not heard it in a few years now, and on open baffle speakers it sounds like he is in the room playing live, and that is what open baffle speakers can do if done right the put the performers in your room, like a panel or Electrostatic without the draw backs. Just a newer forward thinking design done by Clayton Shaw with his newest spatial audio designs.
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