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In Reply to: RE: Pray for me posted by Jack D II on January 25, 2017 at 10:08:56
I gave up on vinyl in the mid 90s and have never looked back.
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich ...
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...they are both great ...except for those times when they suck.
Nothing is perfect.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
In contrast to my good bud Mike below, I do maintain contact with the vinyl world via shows (or when I wander into a shop and the salesman grabs me by the lapels and, with an other-worldly look in his eyes, intones the word, "vinyl" - and then starts demo'ing the the latest Nirvana-inducing advance in LP playback!). I just shrug my shoulders and start telling him, "Gee - that's some really swell sound you got there. REALLY swell!" (as I slowly back out of the store). ;-)
...me, too.
But not because I thought digital sounds better, just that it's much more convenient and I was listening to it more.
And I decided that if I was going to enjoy digital, I needed to not listen to analog anymore because it sounded better.
...I don't think digital is better or necessarily cheaper but it's a WHOLE LOT more convenient.
Not so sure about that just listened to a system with a $30k dac
My experience is just the opposite, as it was when I was listening to more vinyl 15 years ago and recently got my TT up and running. Vinyl is just more enjoyable. The idea that digital is somehow "better" yeah it probably measures better and can sound better on certain recordings but generally never engages me "better", just more convenient.
As a non-audiophile music friend noted quite recently "cd's sound synthetic, records sound more natural".
Meanwhile digital has continued to improve and in terms of accuracy of reproduction it is superior to vinyl and, perhaps, analog in general.
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich ...
Well I would certainly agree that digital has and is becoming more natural/accurate to the extent we can measure and hear such things however I would question your premise that vinyl "filters" the sound by the very nature of the medium. Actually digital is the one that provides layers of filtering. In any case I haven't heard some of the very latest examples of digital technology which might certainly change my opinion but probably at a cost out of my realm. I would love to listen to the DCS Rossini as an example.
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