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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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midareff1
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I'm forever amused by those who spend a couple hundred bucks on a streamer and then run it through a dozen year old processor and post their $80,000 (or way more) analogue setup is way superior to it. 

Digital runs from the wall out....  plug, AC lines and conditioning, streamer, processor and then on to the rest of the system.  Treat and tweak digital the same way you did your analogue system including running the streamer on a good router and good Ethernet cables, be sure your streamer to DAC is on the best sounding cable for that link, and DAC to preamp, and so forth.  Do the work and you will get the sound.
midareff1
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@jjss49   ...    digital cable matching to your components so important.  If folks haven't cable rolled extensively in their system maybe not even exorbitant priced analogue.  Just my 2 cents... I've heard some pretty crappy expensive analogue systems.
@ latik  ...  drop $100K or more on analogue and plug and play a Node and say my analogue is so much better.    LOL... what did they really expect or were they just trying to impress themselves?
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