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Digital as good or better than YOUR analog?

Just curious how many here believe they have surpassed the performance of their analog sources; aliveness, ease, depth, grainlessness, delicacy, scale etc. with their redbook cd playback. I'm closer than ever. I call my digital playback, power analogue, and with the latest technology for less and less money I would love to hear how others are percieving the measures of; palpability(music breathes with naturalness), seductiveness, shadings of recording room que's, vibrancy, etc. with their standard CD digital playback. Thanks
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bomarc
501 posts
 
The attributes you're describing are really more a function of recording quality than playback technology. With that in mind, I can say that the best recordings I own are all CDs, most notably XRCDs and Cheskys. There were some really great records made in vinyl days, but they're pretty scarce now.
fetguy
90 posts
 
With my Levinson CD player I can esily surpass the performance of all but my best albums. And those only in the sense of "air" and, rarely, in vocal presence.

Of course, sometimes the cd is recorded badly (happened a lot in the early years) and the record wins by default. But now that many old albums have been remastered to CD it is getting to be no contest.

The CD player almost always wins in tonal balance and proper dynamic balance. And bass. Deep bass.
spudco
88 posts
 
For analog, I use an Audiomeca Romance table/arm with Lyra cart. For CD I use an Audiomeca Mephesto transport and Enkianthus DAC. With decent CD, it is no contest. Soundstage, dynamics, tight bass are almost always better on the CD player. If I didn't have a fairly large vinyl collection with lots of stuff that won't be re-released, I would get rid of the analog stuff.
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