Images have more detail, colors are rendered with more vibrancy, detail is more vital, contrast more stark and nuances exhibit more power over the viewer. Although the videotape catches the essence of the film, these more subtle interpretations and variations just don't make the translation. So I find it with vinyl. Timbre, like the color in our celluloid film, is more natural and correct sounding. Bass is more full, round and rich.
Cymbals are more detailed, more bronzy and lifelike.
They are more likely to shimmer over you rather than splash at you. The soundstage, again much like the film image, is more dimensional in its layering, providing a better sense of both the real space of the individual instruments as well as its placement in the venue. There is a greater sense of the space around instruments, and of the bloom of each instrument itself. The image, just like that of the film, is wider, deeper and especially taller. With the CD, bass tends to be more flat, coming across more in a two-dimensional sense, with less depth and less breadth.