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The character of analog and digital

Having just obtained some high quality analogue components, I want make some comments on the character of both analog and digital.
First of all it’s very difficult to speak of analog in general. Records vary widely (indeed wildly) in sonic character and quality. Digital recordings are much more uniform. When you play a digital file you more or less know what your getting. Of course some sound better than others, but there is a consistency of character. With records, it’s the Wild West. Variation in SQ and character are rampant.


Therefore it becomes very difficult to make generalizations on which categorically sounds better.

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mglik
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Indeed, welcome back @millercarbon !

Were you banned or did you just take a break?

I owe you for the raves about Townshend and Better Records!

@ghdprentice 

Your digital is very close to your analog. I was stunned by your digital.

But close is only good for horseshoes and hand grenades. 
You may recall my comment about hearing the fine nature of Steven Stills’ guitar.

Only on vinyl did I hear that he was playing a great old Martin. On digital it sounded great but, overall, it did not reach that level of nuanced reality.

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