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

@newton_john 

In the past couple of days, I’ve finally got my streaming setup sounding the way I want. The final piece of the jigsaw was taking out my Roon ROCK NUC and replacing it with a Windows NUC running dBpoweramp Asset, a UPnP server. In many ways that should have been a backwards step, yet it seems have given me the digital sound I’ve been craving for the past few years. Some of the difficult albums that sounded most harsh in places now sound great all the way through. Albums that I’d been underwhelmed by are now enjoyable. 

Interesting. And I have read somewhere the server makes zero difference in the sound. 

Good to hear! Is that with both Roon and a UPnP software? 

@mclinnguy 

I know, right?? A pianist, too! He can’t be all that good; he’s not even on Instagram.

And all those notes on the piano! Too hard to listen to. Why couldn't he just make a "song" the day Dua Lipa does it? It would be SO much easier to listen to. Hey, tell you what: lets just ignore him and hope he’ll go away! 

Duuudeeeee, as I already said before, what the hell does HE know?!?

@gbmcleod 

I think you're talking about Keith Jarrett. If you are, listen to his album "Keith Jarrett/Charlie Hayden" and you'll hear songs the way I think you like them, but with ultimate minimalism and soul. Keith Jarrett has also recorded Bach. He's a master, or at least he was until he had his stroke. 

@audphile1 

The Meitner MA3 has the relaxed analogue ease of vinyl. The instruments do not sound like they went through a blender and were reconstituted. But the sound is a bit "thick." Vinyl when done right can give a very focused sound so that the notes are tight and that also gives the recording more air. Does the MA3i upgrade help to fix that?

@audio-b-dog I wouldn’t describe MA3 as thick sounding but I would say when it comes to image focus and image placement precision it is a bit “diffused” so to speak. 
The MA3i improves upon this greatly. The key is to have enough precision and focus without crossing over into the presentation with etched out images that distracts you from music. The MA3i balances this act very well.