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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.
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rgs92
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While it really depends on the recording, I think the remaining issue in digital is occasional glare in vocals and maybe a woodwind or upper-midrange piano note sometimes.
But this is much less prevalent nowadays.
rgs92
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Yeah, I'm with Rockadanny. I finally got what I consider superb headphone sound with my EMM SE separates and a Ray Samuels B52 amp with highly upgraded tubes and Stealth Indra ICs. With SACD or, say, the Beatles 2009 box, it's off the charts in quality to me (after a long line of annoying false starts with glare/piercing highs/muddy bass or hyped up detail). But tubes were the real breakthrough, especially great vintage/NOS ones. Tubes forever...
rgs92
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Learsfool -- nice thought-provoking post. Do you think what you said applies to high-end SACD also? I notice that with good SACD, I can just breathe deep and relax and take in the music in a way I can't with redbook. So I think I am hearing what you say is a basic fault with digital, but that problem really seems to vanish with SACD for me. Have you heard a lot of SACD and what do you think or feel?
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