I caught this interesting post on Wired last week about the continuous phoenix rising of vinyl records. What makes this all the more interesting is how maybe, just maybe, vinyl (along with mp3’s) might do to the CD what the CD might have done to vinyl.

Portability is no longer any reason to stick with CDs, and neither is audio quality. Although vinyl purists are ripe for parody, they’re right about one thing: Records can sound better than CDs.

Although CDs have a wider dynamic range, mastering houses are often encouraged to compress the audio on CDs to make it as loud as possible: It’s the so-called loudness war. Since the audio on vinyl can’t be compressed to such extremes, records generally offer a more nuanced sound.