Hi Teajay, you said;
"I have recently tried a couple more auditions with very highly regarded analog front ends to see if the magic of LP's would make my digital front end sound broke and the answer was no."
what did you happen to listen to?
As you know we both have the same digtal front end and I agree it's absolutely top notch and personally my favorite also but I can say without any doubt no way did my MBL & AA come close to my analog set-up. It's night and day and the magic is most defiently there to the point it's been some time now since I have even listened to my cd's so I recently sold it all off.
My current vinyl set-up;
TW Acustic Black Knight table placed upon a custom made Minus K platform.
Two different arm and carts combos;
REED arm, MSL Ultra BC cart and the second one a TW 10.5 arm with a A90 cart.
P.S. I'm waiting to receive some marvelous mono blocks, VAC Statement 450's. I should receive them end of May early June. I made a flight earlier in the year, was a once in a million chance to be able to actually hear these amps with the same speakers and pre-amp as mine in someones home, after having the pleasure of listening to them for three days I was lost for words and left in awe and couldn't wait to place my order.
In relation to red-book, I have a great collection and have no plans of getting rid of them but currently knowing what I know now in relation to the two formats red-book isn't high on my priorty.
Rockitman, I will have to agree with Teajay in relation to comparison to the PS, I also had one in my system for a while, sorry no comparison.