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I'm still working to love digital, are you?

I'm wondering how many on this forum are still trying to love the "sound" of digital, as compared to analog. After my 15 long years of digital updates (9 cd players, 3 transports and 5 D/A converters), I still relish the midrange purity and harmonic structure involved with analog, that is not nearly as prevalent in digital. I know that digital gets better every year (I've spent well over $20k myself staying abreast with the latest in digital updates), but digital still doesn't grab my soul the same way that analog does. How many feel the same about analog as I do?
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Further to sexual metaphors, perhaps digital is more like paying for a "date" from a mercenary escort service.

Aggressively marketed, at a glance looks "perfect", supposedly technically superior, but in the end, a mechanical, soulless, overpriced and deeply unsatisfying experience.

(Not that I would know -- but that's what I read on the internet and what my bachelor buddies tell me....)

Before you suggest that analogue is the overpriced option, remember that we could make the same argument about a loving wife. So I suppose it's about long term value and happiness.

I am still working to love digital and it hasn't happened yet.

But I did finally buy that Sony SCD-1 yesterday and I will keep you posted.....
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