When is digital going to get the soul of music?

It has Soul. It all goes back to mastering. I have owned LP's 1st pressings and 1200 CD's some of the LP's sound better others times CD's sound better. Digital you need a low noise floor, kill the noise from RF by terminating unused inputs and out puts. Well made units like Esoteric, Marantz reference, and others of that quality and well mastered CD's you will feel like tapping your foot and dancing just like LP's can do. I've heard later pressing of a vinyl sound like a transistor radio and as bad as a bad CD mastering. The rap digital as is not fair, when it 1st came out in was the dark ages, where vinyl had 40 years to get it right. Listen to old 78's and you will see how far mastering came by the mid 50,s.

More myth than fact in the tireless debate. Buy good gear, look for well recorded music and sit back and enjoy. Don't be fooled, they got everyone on downloading to get sales back, vinyl back for the boomers who grew up with it. Me don't starting over and rebuy again.

My system sounds good and I enjoy the
Music either way, both are not like you hear in the studio, choose your coloration and enjoy. To say a turntable is colorless is a joke, it puts up feed back from the music your playing which is nice to the ear, but choose your stylus by the sound you like, and that can very from brighter to warmer.

You need clean power for digital to sound right. If you implement digital properly it will sound like vinyl - I know exactly what you mean by the soul of music, it's about the right timing. With digital you can go beyond vinyl to get a spectral sound. Spectral is soulful plus absence of noise, the full experience of the spaces between musical notes.

Check out some of my other posts on clean power and you can read more about how to get the best sound from digital. With digital the implementation is more important than the cost of any one component.

There's more on usbdisruptor . com as well.

Robpriore-bravo! We can only keep telling the unknowing mass of music loving listeners. It is no longer a secret. Absolute isolation will give anyone at least an "enormous" improvement in their digital listening. Why else is isolation and scrupulously clean power emphasized by the best manufactures? I wish some observers of this post would check it out and post their findings. Just try out an Equitech 2Q and let us know.

It has arrived! My DHT DAC will have more soul than most high priced analog set-ups. No comparison.

Happy Listening.

Outboard DAC's have always presented there own unique problems...after all, what you hook them up to and how can be severely detrimental to the sound.