Can you Listen to Vinyl Casually??

Vinyl is more engaging, period. It stops me in my tracks and makes me want to participate. CD, no matter how excellent it may be, does that to a much lesser degree. Can there be any dispute about this?

Dear Chashmal: +++++ " Can there be any dispute about this?
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I don't think so, but as different as are both mediums ( analog and digital ) as different are opinions about.

Btw, if i re-call was you asking for a digital source with analog sound ( kind ) performance?, I ask here because of its huge differences: one is digital and the other " analog ", we can't compare it, both source mediums/way have its own advantages and its own disadvantages.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

That's right Raul, I have always tried to find satisfying digital solutions and have never really been to successful. I like the Lector CD player, and some modded stuff I have heard, but in the end I guess my heart is in analog. Therefore you are right to call me on an aesthetic bias.

Generally no. Occasionally Yes. Only because I don't want waste the LP play and spend cartridge life and come back to TT set up every 20 minutes. Of course my digital and analog set up being extremely comparable helps.

BTW, Love the The Brian Jonestown Massacre's new LP ( and the old ones)

My listening has never been at an ambience level and I used to sit down and listen intently to digital but in truth I am now so drawn to analog that I seldom listen to digital, even SACD. Yes, I do have a great deal more invested in analog than digital but that is because I found the medium so compelling before I got into truly high end analog gear that I decided this was where my investment priorities lay. I saw the light and started moving towards it.

Having to change LP's has nothing whatever to do with why I listen so intently to analog. It's the emotion that comes along with each performance, with some of the better LP's being quite addictive in the way they draw me into the music. No digital I have heard can do this for me. I look forward to the day that it can, if I can afford the price of entry as the medium certainly offers many potential advantages and I'm not with analog for the nostalgia. If digital gave me the same emotional experience as analog I would gladly have it as my primary source.