The obsession, the trees. The music, the forest.

I am undoubtedly one of the people who you have seen advocating finding the correct VTA. Believe it or not, this is not an obsession with me in practice. What my advocacy actually represents is a tweak to all of those unabashed "vinyl rules" advocates who can't be bothered with doing what is necessary to make it rule (and they abound and quite often are new to vinyl). If you can't be bothered with setting the proper VTA for each disc you have probably greatly diminished its ability to compete with a comparable digital product. Agruing about CD vs Vinyl is in MHO what "gearheads" do, and is, for the most part, unproductive and has nothing to do with listening to music, only the sounds of your system. Personally I choose the music/performance that I want to hear first and then put the record/disc on the proper devise to transcribe/decode it. I agree, it not vinyl or digital that rules, its music.

Subaruguru, Don't stop re-leveling your CDP unless your also stop releveling your amp, pre amp and speakers otherwise you will lose the synergy between your components you worked so hard to set up. :-) By the way, unless you are willing to wear the hair shirt of vinyl, please turn in your audiophile society identity card and your mensa card as well. We know who you are now, you're not going to fake us out with those Verity speakers of yours and your other assorted paraphernalia. :-)) PS I love those speakers!