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Analog vs Digital

Looking for input from those who have been through the turntable days to today. Is there anyone out there that has found a digital set up that can hold a candle to a analog set up at similar price points? My two analog rigs have torn apart every digital gear ive owned.
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plato
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I use a VPI Aries, JMW arm, and ClearAudio Gamma MC cartridge, which is more expensive than my digital gear and sounds quite good. Before that I was using a Townshend Audio Mk-III Rock with a Transfiguration cartridge. My digital is the Bel Canto DAC-1, connected to a Parasound C/BD-2000 belt-drive transport with a Harmonic Technology digital cable. My feeling is that unless everything is perfectly set-up and tuned in on the analog side, the digital sounds a bit better. With meticulously dialed-in analog I think the TT sounds a little better. The latest digital gear is giving analog strong competition in my opinion. However, my CD transport still won't play LPs--and I have quite a few records. :)
plato
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Well, there is no shortage of bad sounding and even amusical digital gear to be sure, but by the same token, there is some really great sounding digital starting to appear and the gap has closed substantially. Sometimes I play records and get surprised when the CD version actually sounds better than the LP. "Lightyears" difference--that's just nonsense--don't look in the laser boys...sounds are closer than they appear. :)
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