If you’re interested in ‘what you see is what you get’, CD is MUCH closer to the reality of what was heard in the studio than vinyl is. Vinyl is capped on the high end to prevent distortion, and cut on the low end to prevent volume drops. The frequency range of compact discs, by design, go from the upper range of human hearing to the lowest range of human hearing. To the extent that vinyl sounds warm, it’s a product of the constraints of the medium manifest through the mastering process.
It’s fine if you like the sound of vinyl better, but to argue that it’s somehow ‘more real’ is silly.
You're right of course, and I was being facetious -- yes it's true that CDs were supposed to be better (true copy of the Master, larger dynamic range etc.), but alas, no good deed goes unpunished since it didn't take long for Engineers to abuse that extended dynamic range and push louder/compressed mixes to the public resulting in what we refer to as the "Loudness Wars".
Add to that the advent of streaming services and compression (MP3 etc) and we now find ourselves with those "clipped to death" digital masters compressed to an inch of their lives so I can listen to Spotify on the bus.
So is it any wonder people are going full circle and returning to Vinyl?
It’s fine if you like the sound of vinyl better, but to argue that it’s somehow ‘more real’ is silly.