I have made it known on this forum in the past, about a friend who has been investing in a Digital Source for a Long Time, where numerous configurations have been adopted.
CD as the Source was left behind many years passed for Streaming Data as the Source.
Along with numerous tweaks to the Streaming Design and DAC's used where there was the assessment that the Digital Source was a real time competitor to the Vinyl Source in use.
When the Teac 701t was loaned to be tried in the system, everything changed, to the point a CDT was once more introduced and 100's of CD's were speedily acquired.
The 701t is now seen by this individual as the measure to be used to compare their return to an old / or new direction, for the work they are doing on the system.
The Vinyl Source is now seemingly being described as one that can be referred to as a Parity experience as a Source.
In my own system using a CDT > DAC and a Vinyl Source (not set up at present), I have formed the view these Sources share a Parity with each other. I can easily detect the differences when A/B compared on a short duration of demo' tracks.
When either Source is allowed run on playing an Album. The musical encounter being experienced is one which has the ability to immerse a listener into the music. I don't require anymore than that from a audio system, the audio system for ne is at its summit, where all the critical components are at the venue and the end production can't be imagined to be taken any higher.
