Vinyl actually does sound pretty good if you've got:

- a multi-thousand dollar turntable with an exotic tone arm and cartridge
- a dedicated, equally exotic, phono-to-line-level amplifier
- albums that you carefully clean before you play them

At that point, it sounds as good as a good CD. Realistically, the place where vinyl still occasionaly wins is that early CD remasterings were just awful. More modern CD remasterings (particularly of my favorite jazz cuts from the 1950's) are absolutely brilliant. If you're getting a remastering done before they'd figured out how to do it properly, you'd probably prefer the vinyl version.

(On the modern high-tech end, my friend has hybrid ribbon speakers with dedicated per-speaker class-D amplifiers, and all of his line-level signals go over XLR cabling. His main speakers go happily down to 20Hz, and then there's his subwoofer with its own parametric equalizer. It's all very impressive, if excessive.)