Wax all the way.But I must say that certain CD's when you here good ones reduce that urge this to only listen to orig. pressings from 50's and 60's.Good sounding jazz wax came in this era from Bethlehem,United Artist,Phillips and Blue Note among a few others.Bad sounding records also abounded form companies like Roost and Dawn.Then in mid 60's stampers went to her and worse vinyl started to be re-melted and get thinner.By the 70's record quality sucked.But comapnies like MFSL and more recently Classic records have come out with excellent and durrable wax re-issue which in some cases sound better than originals (yes better by tweaking new stampers with adjustments to old tape).CD's though have come a long way especially in the last 5 years with advances like 20 bit transfers.But it always seems to come down to the engineers who always want to "be part of the band".Some of the best sounding CD's are from Mappleshade which uses their own cables in short lenghts with modified mikes and NO MIXING BOARD i.e no compression,expansion,equalization etc.Look around also jazz fans for CD and Wax from Venus records of Japan.Some of their recordings they do themselves and I'll tell you what some of the best wax I have ever heard is the 24 bit digital recordings tranfered to records.It does not have to be an analogue tape to be a good record.Their CD's rock as well.
