There comes a point when one’s vinyl source is simply better than digital. While I listen to both CD and streaming, my turntables sound far more musical and satisfying. Perhaps my digital source needs to be improved but I’ve yet to hear a digital rig that sounds better than a good vinyl system. When a vinyl source and phono amplification is on point, the dynamic range should be of such scale, that surface noise is pushed far below the threshold of annoyance.
I must be old
Listening tonight to Heavy Weather on first vinyl then CD through a Sonica DAC it occurs to me that there are no pops, the stage separation is larger, the dynamics are larger and the instruments are better defined. My record album is not brand new. It has surface noise. My CD does not. I want to love my vinyl but unless I buy perfect new LPs I cannot tolerate the surface noise or lack of frequency limitations for the sake of euphonic sound. Am I crazy? Misinformed? Stupid? I have been an audiophile for 50 years.