When is digital going to get the soul of music?


I have to ask this(actually, I thought I mentioned this in another thread.). It's been at least 25 years of digital. The equivalent in vinyl is 1975. I am currently listening to a pre-1975 album. It conveys the soul of music. Although digital may be more detailed, and even gives more detail than analog does(in a way), when will it convey the soul of music. This has escaped digital, as far as I can tell.
mmakshak

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I seem to have it; and to make matters worse, it is from a computer based system! I know that anything I would think would be suspect; after all who hates their own work?

But I have quite a few listeners over from time to time, and they get to remark on my failures (plenty of those) as well as my successes. The remarks I am getting now all the usual superlatives but what really matters is that they wont leave!

The trick? Digital eq/xover; done well it is an amazing thing. I did try the Deqx, which is a fine product, but found it dynamically...er...off. But the vastly cheaper DBX unit captures the dynamic life of music (makes sense,perhaps, in that it is design for use in live music). Though I have tube gear (SET and OTL) SS is what rules here. Emotion is the reason for music, and it is what I have here.