Interesting. On the paper Digital is far away better, but Vinyl still sound better. Why ?
Few years ago,I had a very interesting experience with a friend that I want share with you.
Chris (my friend) is a pure Vinyl guy. I am a pure Digital guy. And of course we had a lot of discussion about that (recurrent and long discussion).
One day I decided to go the Chris house with my Music server and my Dac. When I listened my music on Chris's System the sound was horrible. But on my system the sound was good (not fantastic but good). The same record from a Chris's Vinyl sounded incredible good. I was traumatise. So, I started to think, may be I should switch to Vinyl. In this perspective, I asked to Chris to come to my house to tested his turntable and phono-preamp on my system. He came few day after. Surprise, this time my sound was really better than his Vinyl. Why ?
Chris and I use dedicated systems for Vinyl and Digital. We don't mix Digital and Vinyl on the same system.
The conclusion was really interresting because at this momment I realized that I like Digital source and analog sound. So, now I choose my equipment based on that. For exemple : in my living room I use Verity Audio Speakers. When I move the Verity to my listening room the sound this bad (too ' digital'). So, I decided to use Audio Note AN-J speakers to have more musicality. Same with audio Cables. Chris uses Nordost Wallaha cables, but in my system they sound bad. Shunyata is far away better in my system. Etc...
I think it's difficult (may be impossible) to have the same equal good sound from Vinyls and Digitals source in the same system. Digital can be very very closed to Vinyl sound (sometines better) if the system is dedicated and design to have this sort of performance.
Marc
