While most seem to say that vinyl sounds better than digital, digital also can sound great. Digital also offers the following advantages:
- cheaper price of admission
- cheaper media
- more available media
- much more available songs, albums
- purchase songs and not whole albums
- creating playlists
- portable devices
- can be easily copied to a variety of storage devices
- the audio performance/technology is growing at an incredible rate
- the convenience of streaming
- the ability to access vast libraries of songs through subscription services including high res files
- the ability to attach metadata to the album/songs, like asking which albums did this artist perform on, biographies, full credits, etc
- the convenience to choosing songs through my iPad while sitting down and not having to battle gravity by getting my lazy ass up except for snack reloads and bathroom breaks (two highly motivated activities)
Why choose? I have both audio chains.
However, there are some aspects of lowering the noise floor in digital that drives me little crazy thinking about:
fiber optic filtering interconnect and Ethernet, linear power supplies, signal re-generators, master clocks, audiophile Ethernet cards, stacking audiophile Ethernet cards, vibration control surfaces, additional cabling, cost
Sometimes it seems like:
Obsessive Me
vs
my bank account, WAF, family, friends, the rest of the world MINUS like minded audiophiles
- cheaper price of admission
- cheaper media
- more available media
- much more available songs, albums
- purchase songs and not whole albums
- creating playlists
- portable devices
- can be easily copied to a variety of storage devices
- the audio performance/technology is growing at an incredible rate
- the convenience of streaming
- the ability to access vast libraries of songs through subscription services including high res files
- the ability to attach metadata to the album/songs, like asking which albums did this artist perform on, biographies, full credits, etc
- the convenience to choosing songs through my iPad while sitting down and not having to battle gravity by getting my lazy ass up except for snack reloads and bathroom breaks (two highly motivated activities)
Why choose? I have both audio chains.
However, there are some aspects of lowering the noise floor in digital that drives me little crazy thinking about:
fiber optic filtering interconnect and Ethernet, linear power supplies, signal re-generators, master clocks, audiophile Ethernet cards, stacking audiophile Ethernet cards, vibration control surfaces, additional cabling, cost
Sometimes it seems like:
Obsessive Me
vs
my bank account, WAF, family, friends, the rest of the world MINUS like minded audiophiles
