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Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
@mahgister -- you’re telling us about your system again. Can we confine conversations a bit to the topic? It really does get long... Sorry you dont get my point right, but i dont speak " explicity" about my components, except saying that they are... 
I love sad music
A touch of sadness that elevate the heart without any depressing effect by one of the greatest Russian melodist:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZovqO1qAdfM  
Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
Wow! i just listen this comparison between highly costly amplifiers on youtube....And even through my audio system i can listen to the unnatural timbre of the voices and instruments and the choice of details over the flowing musicality...I know fo... 
Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
Benjamin would say, "One might subsume the eliminated element in the term “aura” and go on to say: that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. This is a symptomatic process whose significance points be... 
Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
The unanswered question remains: What would Walter Benjamin say? He would prophetise that A.I. and cyborg will always prefer vinyl over digital because it is more organic....But himself being human only, will prefer the commodity and practicality... 
Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
😁😁😁I understand for sure.... I remind you because you surely has observed it already, that english is by no means my spoken language.... I never speak it, i dont travel and only read.... Then when i explain myself in Shakespeare idiom, the artful ... 
Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
Yet despite all that you said, I’d only point out there are people here who have tried both formats *in their rooms, keeping variables constant and avoiding the prejudices of magic words and fetishes* -- and yet they still testify to a difference... 
Tube Amp soundstage
niodari thanks your post illustrate the difficulties to reach an absolute conclusion...The reason is simple the tube gear and the S.S. gear in the same room will not react in the same positive or detrimental manner in all the aspect of the S.Q. de... 
Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
mahgisterMy "Utter rubbish" comment was for the article, not your response.Happy holidays :-) I deeply apologize and wish you the the best from my heart..... 
Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
The fact is NO one knows why hi-res sounds better. NO one knows why vinyl can sound better. The time domain theory is just that -- a theory. Interesting post....The science behind conversion is complex...But when we listen the music in our room, ... 
Sound quality impact - preamp vs power amp?
They are so much different tubes amplifiers , they are so much S.S. amplifiers also...They are so much different pre amp and different power amp....How can one may devise a solution or a choice applicable to all?In audio all these debates and wars... 
Overrated/Underrated
It is more easy to close a mouth than a thread... There is one brain behind the open  mouth, many more behind a thread... 😁Happy new year.... 
Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
As others have said, sound is a physical medium. Hearing is a physical thing. So there is a natural metaphysical symmetry in thinking that a physical phenomenon sounds better in a physical medium. So vinyl (and reels) fit that value system better.... 
Miracles in Audio, by luck, by good choices,by design or by tweaking...
Food for tought:Among my hundred( around 120 cables connections) connections, between my resonators grids , diffusors, Schuman generators grid, sometimes a cable(they are very thin and glued by copper adhesive tape often) detach itself by accident... 
Tube Amp soundstage
The reason why i bought 2 integrated from Sansui ,one of the top one in the AU series (7700) and one of the Alpha series(a601) was their tubelike quality in imaging and their flowing organic non analytic but detailed S.Q.Sansui takes a seriously S...