Analog vs. digital


I’ve found that on my system the digital side is more finely etched than the analog side. Both sound great in their own way, but records just don’t sound so finely defined.
What is your experience?

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I'm wondering if the precision of digital is more like to identify reflections from baffles that some believe is the so called "bright" sound.

If you’re not hearing the high fidelity in your system, then something is wrong with your system. 

I had a $75 analog set up and my digital gear with diy streamer and commercial DAC (together $16) equalled, sometimes bettered, analogue. However LPs that were recorded in analogue eg 50s, 60s, 70s jazz were generally  preferred depending on the mastering. Modern vinyl was usually a waste of time, the digital source easily matched and often outstripped the vinyl unless it had been produced as an all analogue item. Unless you want to purchase AP remasters 33rpm or 45 rpm ( I have most of the originals I want on vinyl anyway) digital is probably all you need.

No matter how good a system you have, the quality of the recording influences the final outcome, poor recordings can sound better but inevitably the software governs the hardware and final outcome.

 

 

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There are things I like about each format, better than the other.  In the end, all that matters is my musical enjoyment of good tunes.  There is a diminishing point of returns in worrying about perfection.