It's been a long time.


Long time member, very infrequent poster. Haven't listened to my analog set up in quite a while, almost 2 years since I got engrossed in my digital streaming set up.

So, I decided to listen to 2 quality recorded vinyl albums this afternoon, what a pleasant treat. 

There is in my set up, a warm, rounded, sense of bloom to the music, everything else being the same. In digital, I notice a slight sharper edge to the notes, maybe, it's all in my head and confirmation bias. It kind of reminds me why I am drawn to music in the first place.

raesco

@kennymacc

+1 I never thought of it that way... you are right. It is really that big. It has completely changed the high end. I collected my 2,000 vinyl albums and 2,000 CDs over fifty years... then one day a few years ago my library went from 4,000 albums to well over a million... at the same or better sound quality. Sure was a long time in coming. 

@ghdprentice ....and it's nice to have no real storage issues for a 1M+ media, either... ;)
Nice growth in SSD's as well....Multi-terabyte drives are becoming a bit less $'s....

 

LP can sound great, often different (not necessarily better or worse) then CD or Streaming .., I love all 3 and in my system each are about equal quality, but do not always sound identical...I have a medium size house and storage not an issue, maybe because I grew up surrounded by bookcases...