Vinyl vs. CD & HD from A.C.A...

I don't think its lame at all. I would think its kinda a cool to listen to 2 different formats and decide for yourself which sounds better. I always compare the cd's i have to their LP counterpart. Part of this hobby to me! I admit that actually some CD;s sound better than LP's & vice a versa, I just prefer the whole LP experience ,taking out the album, reading the liner notes, cleaning it, hearing the light cracks and pops, ect, ect...

Listening to Digital is like having a shower with little Ice cubes

I enjoy good digital and good analog. Therefore I feel a choice is unnecessary.

I own excellent examples of both.

However, it is lame to compare the topologies and expect them to sound similar. They don't and never will. That was point and perhaps not stated clearly.

Now, one might prefer a particular disc over its' vinyl counterpart. That happens albeit infrequently.

If forced to live with only one, it would be sinora to those shiny little frisbees.

Dear Christos: First than all thank you to share with us your overall CDvsLP " project " that speaks in a paramount way who you are like a person and who you are ( and your life passion ) like an audiophile and congratulations too for the great system you own.

It happens ( at least on LP ) that I own every single LP you use on both events but the Les Brown one and I agree with your findings on them, unfortunately I don't have all the CD " twins ".
Anyway your very hard work is really appreciated and a learning one for say the least.

We all know the heavy limitations of the Redbook digital technology and not because is digital but because the standard CD format ( 16/21.2 ) that Sony/Philips choose was the wrong one from the quality performance point of view for us " audiophiles ", they care about profits not quality for a very small part of the market and they achieve what they want, no doubt about. That CD format ( limited frequency range ) makes that the LP one has a high dynamic range than the CD counterpart.
I know that the oversampling ( 24/96+) helps in some way to de Redbook at a level where many of us can enjoy ( some CD samples ) it in almost the same way than LP, btw, I agree totally for what Milpai posted.

I posted several times that both formats can't be compared from the technology point of view each format has and I have to say that today IMHO both formats share more similarity than real differences and IMHO this fact depend more on the quality of the audio system along the quality of the recording on each format that on the format by it self, I think that today we are lucky enough to enjoy both formats!!

Now, if we take the true DVDA 24/96-192 technology ( the SACD too but I prefer the DVDA. ) and we compare in an every thing the same home system the veredict could be 50%-50%, that ( unfortunately ) " dead " digital technology tell us IMHO that the digital technology not only grow up but that can be a great alternative and an alternative not to choose which is better but because both formats has to " live " together due that many recordings exist only in LP format and many recordings too exist only on digital format so: Enjoy both!!!!

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

PS: Btw, I have a little difference opinion about that the cartridge design are grow up through the years, please if you can read this:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1200430667

Thank you again.

A re Skaloumbaka idees pou katevazeis.Thirio eisai re,tzimani,leventopedo ,stereofonikakia mou!
Giorgos
Toronto