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Listening to digital and analog

Assuming there is a difference in the nature of analog sound compared to digital sound (as I do,) there are different ways of listening to each.  To me, analog is more textured and real sounding, (some, or many  may not agree)  but does that mean it’s not possible to enjoy digital sound?  On the contrary, I must adapt a different way of listening that doesn’t actively compare the two.  If one keeps the analog ideal always in mind, it makes it difficult to appreciate digital music. Therefore I have to block that ideal from my mind and listen to digital on its own terms. It must generate its own reality.  Only then, can I sit back and enjoy.
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@dhite71:

"It has been a bit of a psychological struggle for me where I was resistant to liking digital. I have invested so much in vinyl and it takes so much more effort that it didn’t seem right to accept digital"

Appreciate your honesty.

i think this explains most of the negativity re digital from the ’old timers’ tethered to their analog rigs

two things can both be very good, and fully worthy of enjoyment...
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Sounds to me that you have to work awful hard to get digital to sound more analog, when all you have to do is throw on a record...

right -- like good analog isn’t a lot work to get right and keep right ... 🙄

like anything, something unfamiliar takes time to understand and master... for those willing to do so...(instead of just spewing negativity on forums, which is sooo easy...)

ask someone younger what it takes to get a new analog front end spec’d and dialed into a good system ...  now, that can be truly daunting for the uninitiated...

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@midareff1 

+1

do the work on digital you will be rewarded

need analog front ends of exorbitant cost to better it
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