While this has been stated online countless times CD format and roll out would have to be considered yet another sales generated consumer limited experience. Benefits the seller, not the consumer.
Still remember the first CD's I played. Uniformly off the charts base response. Had to redo all my mix settings. I like a bit of volume and nothing blows up speakers or receivers or works them inordinately hard than CD's. While vinyl would play a truer to intended recording of the pressing CD's had all their own whomp to them. The way CD sound is encoded contributing greatly to this. So much so that people started listening to different things on records and Base/Drums got more focus imo with CD's. Which led to such fascination with Bass drops, Dub step, and booming base drum percussion. Some things sounded better, some worse, and music with nuance suffered and music with bombast prevailed. The CD kind of led to newer preferences, selected for hip hop, house, EDM, even Grunge. CD's elevated simpler chord sounds and was the death of more progressive music.
As an example as much as I liked the Smashing Pumpkins for instance what they could put on a disc, and how it would sound had a lot to do with the CD format delivering the new intended sound. Even a lot of remakes like Led Zep, etc, all the remasters, were done with what the CD punch could deliver differently, or bringing out elements of the track more so the CD would even note it.
CD format changed music. A lot of that change was not positive.
I may too go back to vinyl. Been looking at some "Project' turntables which surprisingly London Drugs carries. (of all places, and for the best price in the city)
heh, my two old turnovers suffer from tone arm problems. the bit of buzz that is the bane of turntable afficiondos if it ever happens. Tried reconnections, rewiring, even rewiring box. Once you get the dreaded turntable hum its a deal breaker. Time to get a new one.