Keep in mind that I started on laptop, so vinyl for me is a listening medium and not so much a hands on medium, so I don’t have the attachment to it that a lot of folks do.
What I didn’t like was that I missed a lot of the conveniences of digital. Being able to look and see the BPM of tracks (worth noting: mostly DJing with vinyl that wasn’t mine so it’s not as if I had a long period of practicing with these things prior), a less-than-instant start up = can’t really drop in the way you can on digital (was using 1210’s by the way) no cue button so beatmatching is a pain (also, was mostly playing downtempo/trip hop stuff so it’s not as if I had a nice easy 4×4 beat to work with), couldn’t scratch worth a hoot because there’s a world of difference between doing it on a controller with no platter resistance vs a Technics motor that’s trying to tear your hand off when you oppose it.
Plus the usual stuff about price of vinyl, weight of records, degradation of records, etc. I had a period where I didn’t know if I wanted to go digital or vinyl and this pretty much sealed it for me.
So, no need to get offended, first responder. I’m not insulting vinyl. I’m just saying I’m quite happy with digital.
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