thought i logged into audiogon but somehow tuned in saturday night live
how does this even happen??? 🤣
Digital is far better than vinyl
I have invested a decent sum of money into my digital setup, including a decent streamer (Innuos Zenith MK3), a very good dac (Denafrips Terminator 2), Eno filter, and good cabling. But after being told by many here that vinyl is vastly superior to digital, I thought let’s build an analog system and see what all the fuss is about. So this is what I did ...
I picked up an Audio Technica TT from Amazon for around $299. I then used one of the older integrated amps with a built-in phono, which I believe I paid around $500 a few years ago. And, finally, just to even out the playing field I bought the cheapest possible cables from alibaba. Since I didn’t have extra rack space to put the TT on, I got a couple of bricks and built a DIY platform for it.
So after listening to the analog setup for a few days, I can proclaim without a shadow of doubt that digital is far, far superior than vinyl on any given day, and twice a day on Sunday.
What has been your experience? And please, don’t mention your gear or any special. cartridges, isolation, etc. Not interested in your system details. I just want to make sure you guys understand that digital is far, far superior than vinyl.
Showing 4 responses by jjss49
your terrific humor and satire is lost on many here, unfortunately, and instead you unleashed some latent audiophilia nervosa and belligerence!! 😂🤣 -- hope you had a good thanksgiving and long weekend, and are enjoying the music to folks who are not quite in the know, @arafiq was facetiously (and hilariously, imo) making his op as a tit-for-tat ridicule of the all-too-serious post from a week or so prior, using the same goofy posture and passive aggressive posture to laud analog... i guess you needed to be here, and then, see that goofy post and the responses it engendered, to get the joke... anyhow, best wishes for the year end holidays to all, and hope your holidays are filled with humor and joy!!! |
i personally like this forum BECAUSE it is populated by ’unprofessionals’... that is, regular people who are dedicated to, and love music, and the fine equipment that produces it for us there are some professionals that post here, and these posts can often be rather cringeworthy with their transparent commercial bias |
leaving aside @arafiq’s opening hilarity, i would agree with @ghdprentice ’s sentiment above 100% ... for those of us who have been at this for decades, record players, phono stages, amassing lp’s, and all that comes with it, was the very essence of the audiophile experience... cd’s in their early days were simply awful, abjectly unmusical... so we all got really good at making analog setups really work well, developing our chops so to speak, tweaking tables, arms, carts, vtf, vta/sra, azimuth, antiskate, resistive/capacitive loading, learning about proper mechanical isolation, damping, so on and on -- it was all a necessary part of a lifetime journey dedicated to loving music and its reproduction for our private enjoyment at the highest level all that said, unless one is simply in love with cool old things, with what digital music and streaming offers today, in its convenience, breadth of musical selection, cost and performance, there is simply no need, zero case, for getting into analog, collecting lp’s and so on, if one is starting from a clean sheet |