I sold or tossed my last phonograph back in like 1991. By that time I had bought my 1st CD changer for my home stereo, and I used cassettes in my car. But go back just 5 years to 1986, and we still had a stereo with a phono and an 8 track player at my Moms house from like 1978. I used to listen to this 8 track tape from the Guess Who that had this song called "Coors For Sunday" which was a pretty cool tune, even though I wasnt a big Guess Who fan. I had AC/DC's Back In Black on 8 track in 1982. Also had it on cassette, album and later, CD.
But I used to have a big vinyl album collection from when I was about 10 in 1978 til 1986 when I was 18, and I had probably 90 albums there that I had bought with allowance money, paper route money, or money from my 1st job at 16 in a machine shop. It was mostly late 60's to mid 80's hard rock and metal.
I found a Youtube video recently of a song I wanted to hear, but instead of simply playing a digital CD or downloading a digital file to youtube, the guy used this extremely high tech, and extremely expensive phonograph which was pictured in the video playing. I had never seen a record player that looked anything like this, but it was new-ish and it cost somewhere in the $5,000-$8,000 range! But it sounded as good as any CD I have ever heard even though it was playing an analog vinyl album. I read where some people say a top notch phono with a good quality album will sound better than a CD(???)