Analog and digital are both equally amazing...


My whole life (so far 39 years) has been battling with affording a high end stereo system and finding out what it is want to do with my life. For many years I believed vinyl sounded better and I use to get a lot of flack from people. This opinion that opinion anyway I did always buy cd's simply because it was the "standard" format available at tower records. Anyway I always went to the local mom and pop record store and bought my favorite albums on vinyl. So I have experience with both and understand the positives and negatives of both.

My point is my amazing wife got me Apple TV this past Christmas and for a few years I've been bringing my cd collection into iTunes. I have to say that tonight I realized neither is better or worse than the other I'm just happy that I can enjoy music no matter the medium over a mcintosh and Thiel system.

This is a general statement I'm taking the good with the bad with both formats.

Happy listening fellow nut cases may we always search for the nirvana of listening where ever that maybe, during ain't talking about love from van halen or she's gone by hall and oats.
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Showing 3 responses by geoffkait

Looks like I might of stumbled onto the OK Corral. Surely somebody somewhere must have an unkind word to say about digital. No? Oh, come on. Share, share!
Zd542 wrote,

"Overall, I agree with your post. One thing I've noticed with digital is that the analog portion of a digital source, has a very big effect on how real instruments sound."

Absolutely. I have a habit of looking on every CD for the AAD, ADD, DDD. Too bad there's never an AAA. Yuk, yuk. DDD labeled CD can sound transparent but rather lifeless, whereas AAD labeled CDs are more engaging. Digital remastered cassettes? They sound pretty damn good, difficult to tell IMO. Tape is a natural medium. It breathes.