a lot warmer and more natural than CD
That’s because it’s EQ’d, or compressed, to avoid problems like the stylus jumping across grooves, like my copy of Rumours did during Go Your Own Way. I still can’t listen to that track, thirty years on, without expecting it to jump.
Peter Gabriel had to re-arrange the tracks on So, because the proper last track had too much bass for the vinyl version to cope with.
I’m perfectly happy being able to sprawl on the couch, selecting from my pad, any of the 15-16,000 tracks I have in iTunes, without the hassle of getting up to turn the album over, carefully wipe the surface with a carbon-fibre brush to remove dust, before carefully dropping the stylus onto the record. And repeat. And have to take multiple copies of albums back because of the shitty pressing, and crap re-cycled vinyl.
And that was using approximately £2000 worth of turntable, arm and moving-coil cartridge.