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When does analog compete with digital?

With vinyl becoming all the rage, many believe (perhaps mistakenly) that a budget of $1K will allow them to bring their analog front end up to par with their digital. I would like a reasoned assessment of this issue.

How much time, money, and expertise do you think is necessary before one can seriously claim that their analog front end can compete with their digital? What characteristics, if any, are simply incommensurable between these two mediums? Let's use my system as an example.

Personally, I tried to build an analog front-end that focused on texture/warmth (as opposed to dynamics), but I still feel as though something is missing. Trouble is, I can't quite put my finger on it. I'd be grateful for comments/suggestions (system in sig)
jferreir
sarcher30
596 posts
 
In regard to isolation. A turntable is the most sensitive component in the whole system.

When people say that isolation should be addressed last, it is because they probably don't have a turntable.

If your room sits on a concrete slab then that helps alot. If it has a suspended floor then a wall shelf would most likely work better.
ebm
9,311 posts
 
After you finished 2 bottles of Barolo!
cajunpepe
255 posts
 
Macdadtexas,

It looks like the 2012 M5 will be approaching that sub 4 second mark!

BTW..although I am born and bred New Orleans, my Alma Mater is in a town 300 miles northeast of here named Tuscaloosa. You folks in Texas may be a little familiar with it. I can't, therefore, in good faith agree with your kind gesture of "Geaux Tigers".

Roll Tide Roll,

Pepe
macdadtexas
1,794 posts
 
Cajun P, best college football game I have ever been to:

Auburn vs Alabama in the mid '90's. Great fans, great stadium, great rivalry, great sporting event. Very tough tickets to get, too.
phaelon
1,049 posts
 
The tremendous influence of the seemingly microsignificant on turntable performance continues to astound and repel me. Jferreir, no factor of analog is trivial IMO.
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