Listening to digital and analog

I guess the consensus is propofol is the other alternative.

As was mentioned in a previous thread, if you cut yourself off from digital, you deprive yourself of most current or recent performances.
If that matters to you.
I believe you have to listen to the specific reality digital does provide, even if it isn’t the ideal.
BTW, The original analog MJ “Thriller” sounds great!

My post inevitably engenders the debate on the relative merits of digital vs. analog. That was not essentially my main focus, though. I really enjoy good sounding digital recordings. My point is not that one mutually excludes the other. They can both peacefully coexist.
I just want to point out that you may have to listen a little differently to each in order to enjoy both. I do believe there is a difference in texture between the two formats.
As I stated, some or many may disagree.

I thought someone would question me on how one listens differently.   (I’m surprised no one has brought this up til now.)
And your point about the in-person experience vs. the recorded experience is also pertinent.
I do believe one has to listen differently to recorded music, to “suspend disbelief” in order enjoy recordings, which seldom if ever match the real thing. Same with digital vs. analog.  I think digital is less “real” than analog.
You may disagree.

You’re lucky!

Melm,

 Interesting discussion.
 I do agree that on my system, the analog side is more convincing to me.  Through the years, when one side, analog or digital, got too far ahead of the other side, I poured time and money into equaling things out.  I’m at a point now where I really do enjoy both, and if truth be told,  (for whatever reasons) I listen more to digital than analog.  And I do have a sense of reality therein.  
BUT. when I play a record, even though the digital seemed convincing, I hear more texture and space. And, I just have to convince myself when streaming or playing a disc that it’s just as real, even though the sonic signatures are different.
Where we disagree, is on the reason for this.  After many, many years listening and experimenting, I think the sonic nature is inherent in the media.  You are convinced the difference ls due to the quality of the equipment used in each.
Maybe we’re both right!