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The LP12 is a good workhorse, but there are better turntables...

Posted by DevillEars (A) on March 6, 2007 at 12:00:48

In Reply to: Upgrade to either Digital or Analog...need your recs... posted by DevilDawgMom on March 5, 2007 at 20:38:20:

... available on the market today.

Having said that, the answers to questions posed by others covering:

a) Current collections on CD vs LP
b) Listening balance between CD vs LP
c) Plans for new music sourcing (CD vs LP)

:should all have their bearing on your decision to upgrade one of the two front-ends.

For the meantime, ignoring the answers (which are not yet available anyway), if one compares the two front-ends, the Ayre CDP is a good and reasonably current unit, while your LP12 - although you appear to have tried to keep it up to current Linn specifications - is no longer the "standard" it once was.

So, on that basis, it might just make sense to go for a new turntable/arm/cartridge combination.

On the other hand, reading your post, you state:

What I will say that since the purchase of the Audio Research LS26 preamp + Audio Research 150.2 power amp, , the digital to analog difference has been lessened.

Reading between the lines, I'd hazard a guess that you currently prefer the vinyl front-end to the digital front-end, which tends to indicate that, just maybe, you should push the envelope on the digital front-end to try to narrow the gap even further.

There is some logic in this, as - if you are able to narrow the gap to a small difference, you will have a balanced enjoyment of all your music and not just one part. Also, the selection available on CD is much larger than that on LP (and probably slightly cheaper per album); the maintenance overhead on CD is much lower than on LP (cleaning LP's can be a royal PITA); and finally, there's the argument that there ARE times when the convenience of CD (remote control track skipping, repeat, random, etc) make it a more appropriate source medium than LP's - particularly work evenings when all you want to do is relax.

The final contradiction in this post of yours just has to be your choice of forum in which you've posed the question - Vinyl Asylum and NOT Digital Drive - which indicates a certain level of predetermination on your part (ie: that just maybe you've already made the decision in terms of which front-end to upgrade...)

So, roll on the answers to those other questions and then your predilection(s) might just become a wee bit clearer... :-)

"Don't roll those blood-shot eyes at me!"

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