Worth pursuing analog sound from digital?

fleschler,

Totally agree with your last sentence. Just listen to some of the Rock/Pop groups of the mid seventies. Compression was in (over) abundance back then. Many recording companies were too busy trying to make those recordings sound good over your car speaker.

mr_m1 Exactly true.  Engineering for car speakers, not audiophiles (sometimes known as music lovers).

Will digital ever sound like analog.... no.  why.... because it's not analog.

mr_m
fleschler,

Totally agree with your last sentence. Just listen to some of the Rock/Pop groups of the mid seventies. Compression was in (over) abundance back then. Many recording companies were too busy trying to make those recordings sound good over your car speaker.

>>>>>Huh? Compression is a relatively recent phenomenon, the truly egregious compression started in the late 90s and is so bad today that you can see many new recordings and re-issues are “flat-lined” Dynamic Range wise, as shown on the dynamic range database. Also, car speakers have very little to do with why records and CDs are compressed. The mid seventies was actually a period of high dynamic range, as were the eighties and most of the nineties. 

Dear @john1 : I never take or took the word of other to make my statements, always are first hand experiences.

The link I posted was only as an example of an analog/LP lover that knows digital is just great !.  Got it?

R.