Not as much activity on analog here

I have spent a lot of time and a reasonable amount of money getting my setup to where I wanted it to be in recent years.

I started off getting my vinyl tuned in. That helped establish an in-house reference. Then I focused on digital.

Once I had both pretty much hitting the target, then I did a few common enhancements from there, mostly with amplification and tweaking. Now they both sound similarly really really good. Digital gets 90% of of my listening time these days though because of the convenience and flexibility and that is best for expanding ones library with new music. Vinyl is still good for expanding the library with older music, especially when good quality vinyl is found for dirt cheap at Goodwill.

The simple fact is that if you own LPs, the best way to hear them is on a turntable. Nothing else will play them. If you don't own LPs you don't need a turntable, unless you just want one because they're sort of cool to look at, and you can spin things around on them...

Lots of lps still out there to play. Plus a lot of it comes dirt cheap if you look in teh right places. A good omen for the continued presence of vinyl/analog source material. And yes, you need good stuff set up well in order to milk the most out of it. That's nothing new but still good news for high end audio. Good sounding digital continues to become more affordable. That's bad news for high end audio.

Chayro,
Well said!
There's no need for chasing after DACs every "few months" unless you just want to do so. Both Digital and Turntables can provide very long lasting enjoyable music reproduction in one's home. Either source can sound disappointing it not implemented properly. I don't find one inherently superior to the other given the choices now available. Good total system execution is the determining factor.
Charles,

I wonder about the points listed here .
Go to AA and they have a great many more posts listed than here . Is at least part of the problem attributed to the , how shall I say it , not-so-good website management
that has beset this site . I can remember when this site used to be just as stable and reliable as say Yahoo .
Maybe a question might be considered about reliability and consistency of use !
Not saying that AA is perfect but it does seem to be managed a bit more in favor of the members usage .

Please no flames !