Staying on point...
I listen more often digitally than I do analogue simply because digital, server/player/streaming, offers an ease of use that vinyl does not. While the tangible appreciation of vinyl playback still owns a place in my heart, either format serves me well enough to a point wherein disparaging one in favor of the other is without merit.
I began with vinyl and it never left my setup. Even as I gravitated toward the compact disc, essentially mirroring my vinyl catalogue in a hasty embrace of the "new" format, I never had the mind, nor the ears, to find either so utterly superior to the other that one would suffer divorce from my life.
The quality of playback through either source is woefully dependent on the quality of one's equipment - with vinyl being particularly precious regarding the chain. It was said here earlier that it should be "all about the music", so I recently moved from a fairly admirable separates setup to one with an integrated amp, turntable, and player/server. Voila! Easy peasey, and I've since stopped wringing my hands over the loss or gain of a few hertz here or there - if I ever could discern it audibly.
At my gf's house we listen through a Pioneer SX-850 receiver, Pro-Ject cheap-seats turntable, and/or a Marantz CD player through Meadowlark Kestrel speakers. We've weaved our way through her truly awful collection of disco compilation lp's keeping only original artist recordings. Fortunately we're down to about fifteen such examples. We have done the same to her equally awful, yet far more extensive CD library of disco compilations as well. As a means of rewarding her painful decisions resulting in a diminished library, I've been purchasing heavy-gram vinyl copies of her other favorites, Fleetwood Mac, Boston, Earth Wind And Fire. She's also left my house with more than a few Lyle Lovetts, Lucinda Williams, Genesis, and Dave Grusin lp's.
Spinning now on my cdp? "Don't Tell A Soul" - The Replacements. I'm awaiting the arrival of Son Volt's new release for the turntable.
I listen more often digitally than I do analogue simply because digital, server/player/streaming, offers an ease of use that vinyl does not. While the tangible appreciation of vinyl playback still owns a place in my heart, either format serves me well enough to a point wherein disparaging one in favor of the other is without merit.
I began with vinyl and it never left my setup. Even as I gravitated toward the compact disc, essentially mirroring my vinyl catalogue in a hasty embrace of the "new" format, I never had the mind, nor the ears, to find either so utterly superior to the other that one would suffer divorce from my life.
The quality of playback through either source is woefully dependent on the quality of one's equipment - with vinyl being particularly precious regarding the chain. It was said here earlier that it should be "all about the music", so I recently moved from a fairly admirable separates setup to one with an integrated amp, turntable, and player/server. Voila! Easy peasey, and I've since stopped wringing my hands over the loss or gain of a few hertz here or there - if I ever could discern it audibly.
At my gf's house we listen through a Pioneer SX-850 receiver, Pro-Ject cheap-seats turntable, and/or a Marantz CD player through Meadowlark Kestrel speakers. We've weaved our way through her truly awful collection of disco compilation lp's keeping only original artist recordings. Fortunately we're down to about fifteen such examples. We have done the same to her equally awful, yet far more extensive CD library of disco compilations as well. As a means of rewarding her painful decisions resulting in a diminished library, I've been purchasing heavy-gram vinyl copies of her other favorites, Fleetwood Mac, Boston, Earth Wind And Fire. She's also left my house with more than a few Lyle Lovetts, Lucinda Williams, Genesis, and Dave Grusin lp's.
Spinning now on my cdp? "Don't Tell A Soul" - The Replacements. I'm awaiting the arrival of Son Volt's new release for the turntable.