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Are there digital front ends with the body...

and resolving power of good vinyl?

I'm mainly just curious; I'm not going to buy one. Getting into vinyl recently, I'm actually surprised by how a (moderately pricey) analog setup can trounce digital - any I've heard, anyway. There are at least two areas: 'body' and image density/separation. These add up to 'naturalness'.

This is not a taunt or anything like that: I'm curious if there are those that feel that there is digital that competes on this level. Price no object.
paulfolbrecht

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deshapiro
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My system have tremendous body. There are solid images in the air, drums that kick you in the chest, the whole deal. I am currently using a Mac-mini as a server and running it to a Wavelength Crimson USB DAC. OTOH, it took a lot of work, including changing out my (very good ) preamp.
I'm sure that more improvement is possible, since it always is, but I belive that I'm hitting the "few per cent for many dollars" part of the slope.

David
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