@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!
Does anyone have a digital system that is as involving as their analogue front end?
I have a good analogue front end. Not stratuspherically good but good enough for this comparison. VPI Prime Signature 21 turntable, Pass Labs XP-25 pono preamp, Pass Labs XP-30 preamp and Hovland Radia amp. It has a lovely, very involving sound. On the right recording, I just drop everythng and am drawn in to listen.
My streamer, on the other hand, is decent but not spectacular. It is better than my CD player, but it is not jaw-dropping like my analogue front-end. My question is this: does anyone have a high-end, tier-one streamer (dCS Bartok Apex, Lumin X2, or something like them) that can rival a good analogue system?
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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.
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@audphile1 I go to the MConnect app to do the updates, other then that I don’t. |
So, I'm an old guy with a 1,000 albums of some of my favorite music. Albums I've gone around the world to buy. Russian albums I can't even read. I have also bought several copies of certain albums to find the one that is right. I must admit, it's a kind of religion to me now. Getting up out of my chair to turn over the record. (You're not supposed to sit for more than a half hour without getting up.) I don't doubt that at some level a quality $$$$ digital front end might rival analogue. Rival in the sense that it would sound as good on its own terms. Maybe I am hanging onto the old Dodger Dog (the new ones are dreck) sitting in the bleachers in the days of Sandy Kofax. At my age, do I really want to give up my few nostalgias? |
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