The character of analog and digital

I had decent TT long time ago, but couldn’t stand pops and clicks. Perhaps it is possible to avoid them, but it is not my experience. Pops and clicks take me back to my room when I was already at the concert. As for R2R - layer to layer copying is often the problem and I could hear that. My friend worked in very large recording studio where they had separate department responsible to rewind thousands of tapes to avoid it. Many years ago they sold all the Studer tape recorders and went digital. No more rewinding silliness. Media is likely not a problem since I have few wonderful sounding CDs. CDs got bad rap from early attempts with wrong master tape frequency correction. Also, digital recording opened door to unlimited track recordings. They put microphones in front of every instrument to make sens of it later with poor results. Now they use only few microphones suspended over whole stage. Nyquist is not perfect since it applies to continuous waves only, but I doubt it makes any audible difference. I like digital for many practical reasons, but admit vinyl had its magic. I would also assume that older or very new vinyl has less compression being audiophile media. Compression is wonderful and necessary for average home system but we need less of it. I had hopes they will do it with more expensive media oriented toward audiophiles, like SACD, but greed killed the project (as it killed many other in the past).

@mikelavigne  “digital…won’t equal vinyl in my lifetime…”

You must have died about 35 years ago.  Thanks for making a reappearance on Halloween.

Asa manufacturer I can taylor the sound of both so although there are people who have an opinion based on their experiences, all of that can be altered.

Happy Listening.

I always thought I heard a lot of noise when hearing a needle tracking along a record groove.  However, it has been many years since I have played vinyl.  I need to go to a dealer to hear the difference again.  I must be missing something.

I read many years ago and agree and still think it’s true….

“To like digital you have to stop listening to analogue vinyl.”

I find the best analogue vinyl sounds much better than digital. 
the sound is relaxed and has air and ambience. 

also, much pure analogue vinyl recordings from the past sound better than their recent digitized vinyl reissues. Just about all new vinyl, reissues included, are now digitized and then converted back to analogue before pressing. New cutting lathes are digital. 
 

I hear a loss of musicality in most new reissued vinyl. 
I haven’t bought any new re-issue vinyl in the last five years after being disappointed by “digital” in your face but less musical sound on several re-issues. 

new music on a good dac sounds pretty good. 
there is no pure analogue to compare it too. 
 

but most music from the 50’s thru the 90’s sounds pretty bad in digital when compared to the original vinyl. I think we are stuck with crappy conversion from those early digital years.