Does anyone have a digital system that is as involving as their analogue front end?

A slightly longer no, this time.

I have spent a lot of time recently rearranging my network to get the best digital sound that I can. This has reduced the nasties in digital significantly. I have listened to a few high res albums and am delighted how loud I can now go with being fatigued by what I am hearing.

The last digital album I listened to all the way through was Caravanserai by Santana. Now, I have swapped to vinyl for then same album. It is a completely different level of listening experience, more involving, immersive, realistic and enjoyable. Better in every way possible, bar a little surface noise in the quiet parts. It isn’t even close.

I should declare the I have currently got Linn’s new dual Utopik Klimax Radikal on loan, so I won’t be at these giddy heights after I return it on Monday. Maybe, I am doing something wrong with digital, but that’s the way I’m hearing it.

@audio-b-dog I used to have an analog system as well as digital and made the decision to focus on one path.  It's never apples to apples but I have heard some very high end analog systems that are great but also digital systems that, at least to me, are comparable.  This, along with the convenience and essentially endless library of new music caused me to choose digital.  Dollars certainly do not always correlate to great sound and I have friends that probably have at least equal sound quality systems and have made better financial choices!  

@deep_333 

(Fremer is 80 years old....... a.k.a age associated hearing degradation coupled with decades of severe psychological bias. Fremer tasked with a/b comparisons in a blindfold will sink quicker than a rock in the pacific and become fully irrelevant.)

You are repeating a prejudice about ageing. We all lose our ability to hear high frequencies with age. This does not affect our appreciation of  music per se because that is dependent on our ability to distinguish tiny timing differences between harmonics. Our ability to hear these timing differences does not necessarily deteriorate with age to the same extent as with high frequencies. You are slandering Michael Fremer along with all older people.

Yes Qobuz connect is great with MA3i. The Mconnect apps are crap as far as UI goes. 

@audphile1 I go to the MConnect app to do the updates, other then that I don’t.