While many have said it in different ways, in a modestly resolving system, vinyl simply sounds better to my ears. A good manual turntable, arm, and cartridge set up generally outshines CD redbook play back IMO. One of the primary reasons I upgraded my turntable last year, was a relative large collection of albums that I rediscovered (boxed up since our last move).
That said, vinyl is more work than CD's or SACD's. They need to be cleaned, you need adequate storage space, you need to flip them every 20 minutes or so when listening, and if you have a line stage preamplifier or modest integrated amplifier you often need to add a good phono preamp.
The variety of of used jazz and classical music titles on vinyl is simply astounding. You would be surprised when telling family and friends that you're listening to albums again, how many boxes of vinyl will come your way.
If your undecided, go to a dealer and A-B the same title on vinyl vs. CD. I compared Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Tin Pan Alley", Sarah Vaugh "Crazy and Mixed Up" (JVC XRCD), Oscar Peterson & Count Basie "Satch and Josh (JVC XRCD2) and Allison Krauss "Forget About It" on a Nottigham Interspace turntable w/ Interspace arm & Dynavector 10X4mkII vs. and Accuphase DP-75V in a fairly high resolution system recently. I liked the vinyl on the Nott much better.
Your results and opinion may vary.
NB
