Wow! Hats off to Neil Young! He has neither burned out nor faded away!

those of us who love vinyl get pretty intense on this subject, but to say it "sounds better" than mp3, CDs or other digital media is a bit of a stretch. CDs, mp3s, wav files and all that stuff don't have the same visual appeal that vinyl albums have.

CDs played through a good home sound system will have better sound, better imaging, than mp3s on I Tunes. With vinyl there is an even bigger difference. Thats because with I Tunes part of the information is removed so the file wont take up so much room on your computer.

Bring back the vinyls!! I have a turntable collecting dust and I wanna use it...! lol And my vinyls that I guard with my life sounds terrific.

I remember when CD's came out everyone said how amazing they were because they wouldn't get scratched like vinyl. That is my biggest beef- a big expensive lie.

Vinyl is awesome. I couldn't bring myself to spend more than $200 for a decent turntable, but found a TD160 that someone had discarded...only needed a belt, and had a Shure V-15 MKIII cart already installed. A new belt, a couple of other tweaks, and better than new! And tube power amps make things even better!

Vinyl...there is no substitute!

Not a comment about the article, but about the picture. Neil looks a bit like Gollum stroking the precious!

Doesn't matter what Neil Young songs are played on, nothing better to listen to no matter what mood you are in.

Kinda funny trying to figure out which sounds better. Those of us who listened to Neil since the Buffalo Springfield appeared on Hollywood Palace in the mid 60's, have ruined our hearing from playing the songs too loud all these years! What's that you say? Vinyl floors better than wood?

Steve Jobs was a visionary. He would be the one to take music to another level. I have over 200 LP's, most are from the 70's.I even have the Jefferson Starship album, with the entire album covered with the band logo. Strong fight to what music plays better. I'll tell you one thing you can't get on a CD and that's the Rolling Paper from Cheech and Chong's first album (still got it) ,. Going to all the concerts in the 70's just about made me deaf. For all you boomers, remember "General Admission Tickets" I digress. Glad Neil won the award and I'm sure Mr. Jobs isi in a better place, creating better music. Amen

It's not surprising that Steve would have preferred vinyl . He was after all a child of the seventies ! Those of us old enough to remember the thrill of clutching that big piece of plastic , eagerly waiting to " spin " the latest addition to our libraries of music / cover art ( the cover art was almost as important as the content ! ) have warm memories of the ritual like process of cueing up the needle and record . While I'll be the first to admit the format of vinyl has some serious limitations , not the least of which is the reduction of fidelity with each successive playback , the uncompressed analog waveform when played through a decent audio system can render an emotionally true reproduction of what was intended in the studio .

My old Marantz turntable and old school stereo receiver can generate acoustic harmonics almost completely absent in compressed audio , even at the highest bit rate playback . With any luck someone in the audio / software industries can accomplish what Jobs and many of us would love to see ; an audio format with the sonics of careful , quality analog recording with the robustness and convenience of modern digitized algorythms applied to music recordings .

Attention Apple , you have an opportunity to produce a legacy technology in honor of your founder and mentor . Please do so .

Harmonics are what makes music; digitize and compress music and you remove content that a uncompressed analog waveform contains.

Long live vinyl and tubes!

There already IS a better audio format, Neil, you aged jackass. It's called FLAC

The letters stand for Free Lossless Audio Codec and you can read about it HERE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Lossless_Audio_Codec of course, the apple iPod won't play files encoded with it but who needs the iPod?

The Videolan (VLC) Media Player makes use of it just fine.

You can get that HERE: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Pretty Crazy, eh, old Horse?

Too bad you missed the 60's C ass_of_Shadows, THINKING is the best way to travel, to listen. OOOOhhhh videolan, can I listen to your Justin Bieber on it with you?

What's that you say? You neiled down a load on a caged jackass and got flac for it? Should have given the jackass that apple you wasted on the IPod creature you say was a pretty old horse.

Portability of content is one thing, that's why we have the iPod. BUT, the standard High Fidelity (still the term for it) must be vinyl records and tube amplification. Solid state needs to "clip" when sound outside of the response window, where as analog equipment can "crunch" it into the window. Distortion? Yes. But the real world is all about distortion.

That is why "real" keyboard players long for the old tube-based, twg Hammond organs and not the solid state imitative ones. You only have to listen to the organ solo in Soul Sacrifice from Santana's Woodstock performance to understand why overdrive (tube distortion) is a good thing.

Neil Young is a POS. He abandoned his disabled child years ago. I wouldn't buy vinyl,CD or download any of his music onto an iPod. He sucks!

Oracle turntable, tube pre-amp with the tone defeat on, Harmon Kardon amp, Infinity speakers... and a 1/2 speed mastered "Dark side of the moon"

Digital has never even come close..

Hannah, you are a liar.....this child means the world to him. Anyone can search instantly this child. I am sure you are the one who sucks......instead of Neil.