Rega P25, would it sound better than my CDP?

My Rega P25 with a Dynavector 17D Karat, sounded better than my Levinson 37 transport and Chord DAC 64. Your mileage may vary.

If you have an extensive LP collection I would say go for it, but you might do better with a Nottingham Analogue deck at that price.

If you have no LPs I'd say save your money and get a better CD player.

The difference in sound quality between CD and LP is significantly less than the variance in recording and mastering quality IMO.

(Owner of Rega P3 with Goldring 1042 and Monarchy Audio 22A DAC ... both about $1000 in their day).

Okay, let me ask you this way: In your opinions what are the sound differences between your vinyl versus digital set ups?

What does DIGITAL offer in your system that vinyl doesn't?

What does VINYL offer in your system that digital doesn't?

They both must have their strengths and weaknesses, objectively speaking what are they?

DIGITAL - Completely silent backgrounds all the time, more crisp at the frequency extremes.

ANALOG - more natural/organic tonality, more inner resolution

dynamics are a wash

No one would complain about surface noise on 95% of my records - essentially silent. If you play clean records on a well setup vinyl front end, surface noise is basicly a non-issue. Some cartridge minimize surface noise better than others. The denon 103 series are excellent in this way.

I personally would rather listen to a well setup Rega 25 than ANY cdp including meitner, dcs, etc. When I listen to vinyl I'm able to get into "the zone" where I don't pay attention to the playback and just enjoy the music. With digital, it doesn't usually happen.

If you have a collection spend the money, if not upgrade the cdp/cdp power cord/cdp IC. You won't regret it.

My LP12 matches my Wadia 301 in PRaT, but not in any other catagory. Still I'm going to upgrade my TT. Why you ask? Because I have about 700 near mint/mint lps that I've picked up at local garage sales for between free and $1.00 a pop. This is a great way to expand my music collection. At $5.00 a cd used, that would be $3,500. I payed $1,500 for my TT setup. So to me it makes sense.