When is digital going to get the soul of music?

I'm a little late in joining this discussion but I think what Onhwy61 said about distortion is absolutely correct. Call it what it is. Tube equipment adds it and I suspect a piece of equipment could be designed that would emulate tape saturation and/or vinyl compression even more accurately. Perhaps a business opportunity exists here. This would not compensate for bad recording technique or bad pressings but in the case of a good CD recording, would provide what vinyl lovers would call "magic".

I can remember the digitally recorded vinyl records from the late 70's, early 80's. They seemed unbelievably good. I also have a compilation CD of Asian music where I swear that one of the tracks came from vinyl. It has the sound of vinyl complete with the ticks and the sense of space and immersion is undeniable. I will agree that vinyl does offer a very pleasant listening experience but I would dispute the assertion that digital is an inferior medium.

Jlambrick. Digital is clearly inferior at this point.

Anyone who doesn't see that has never actually had a well set up TT, or is burrying their head in the sand.

But of course it's all subjective for those that want it to be.

"Now THAT could be interesting for you both!"

Almost "you three"...
I was supposed to be in Fremont area tomorrow but things didn't work out. I'll be interested in hearing any commencts, of course.

And yes, "serus" moniker is Ori from Oritek, before there was Oritek... It stands for SE-R-US... But then I went wild and partially converted towards the push-pull design, although my main amp is a minimalist 3 watts SE, still... I can hear Alex laughing... :-)

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digital vs. analog vs solid state vs tubes vs IC's vs Kramer.

I have read and seen and heard and have been told , that a top end TT has a hard time against a top cd. we have heard some say cd tops the TT. It's been said that a 1k TT blows away a 25K cd . Now depending on the combo's and mix of prices and wires and ALL that is hi-fi ,you guys have managed to describe CONFUSION . For when a member tries to get the real deal here as far as LOGIC , there is none.

Don't get me wrong ,I'm describing All that is in this site concerning whatever you want to compare or slice and dice.

When a communication is one of logic then one finds answers to questions and can go further in producing more solution to problems. This is logic and REASON.

When a communication is based on confusion then we get this phenomenon of no reason or irrational or no answers or solutions to any problem.We cannot make any advance progress this way.

Now , if this was a confused source of information then.....1, we would have misunderstanding of the subject hi-fi...check
2. we would purchase components based on cofusion and sell it and soon after not getting the satifaction etc...check
3. with confusion our realities towards each others sounds would be ,not so real after all. and would be a source of flames ....check.

4. an audiophile would be always searching through the confusion for a better sound. This is due to confusion ...check.

5 when always faced with confusion ...unless one puts order into the FACTS ,one will always be confused ,lost and going around on a merry go round etc...check..
6 >>>>to infinity you will never resolve the problem under the cloud of confusion.
Infinity + one. When a person is selling ,buying ,cheating,attacking, misleading ,profits , shipping hassles, broken promises, . How does one trust or keep the confusion to a minimum? I'll let you write up the rest.