When is digital going to get the soul of music?

As soon as adequate isolation is used from ac to digital and digital to analog. It's a magical transformation. Cheers.

I'm with you Mapman. Very enjoyable music comes to me even from the early poorly done CD's. It's in the music. Perfect is always coming.

When everyone gets that ac power conditioning is vital!. Until then "no one" can't evaluate.
It's like dirty water. It can kill you----purified, you must have it. How simple.

Even tape hiss is far more audible when you have all aspects of phase in order along with exceptional (I consider this 'just adaquate') isolation and ac power (conditioning) cleaning. Even Rye is better in a clean glass-i.e. no soap residue.(Think of appreciating hi-fi sound as like appreciating exceptional liquor-mix (dirt) don't add value.

Very nice albums to have. Pretty hard to notice tape hiss with all that music going on.

Digital is definitely there; and has been since at least 2005.
With supreme power conditioning-for the digital - clarity, dynamics, detail, delicacy and musicality are available from my rather modest (well, not particularly highly rated) Lexicon RT-20 through my reference Spectral & MIT gear. My reference for this is my Goldmund turntable. More info to follow.

Robpriore-bravo! We can only keep telling the unknowing mass of music loving listeners. It is no longer a secret. Absolute isolation will give anyone at least an "enormous" improvement in their digital listening. Why else is isolation and scrupulously clean power emphasized by the best manufactures? I wish some observers of this post would check it out and post their findings. Just try out an Equitech 2Q and let us know.