Maybe I will take a look at the Lampizator as they seem to be pretty well respected. The best I've heard to date have been the DCS products. Still, they do not sound like my very modest analog rig.
How much do you need to spend to get digital to rival analog?
I have heard some very high end digital front ends and although they do sound very good, I never get the satisfaction that I do when i listen to analog regardless if its a"coloration" or whatever. I will listen to high end digital, and then I soon get bored, as if it just does not have the magic That I experience with a well set up analog system. So how much do I need to spend to say, " get a sound that at least equals or betters a 3K Turntable?
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I wiz listening to some NOS early Beatles cassettes - the ones you never see anymore, blue with no barcode - yesterday on my SONY Professional portable cassette player. You simply cannot hear dynamic range like that on any Beatles CD - especially the recent spate of reissues that came out on the last few years. It’s great to hear the opening Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band the way it’s SUPPOSED to sound. Same for the White Album on early cassette. |
Dear @ronres : ""
If you enjoy and seek the sound analog creates then no amount of money spent on digital will be able to replicate the analog experience. """ Why do you want to replicate the analog experience that's wrong and different medium where you lost a huge signal amount of information and where adds a lot of non recorded signal information. Digital is truer to the recording to what recording microphones pick-up?: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/how-much-do-you-need-to-spend-to-get-digital-to-rival-analog/post?postid=1828665#1828665 @fleschler , please read that post. Of course that I can be wrongs but those are facts. Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R. |
Mikelavigne, I totally agree, it all comes down to the master. I also can not tell a difference between vinyl and a 192/24 version done with Pure Vinyl of that very same record. I am debating getting one of their phono amps but have not made that leap yet. The Hi Res files files I buy are usually old material I already have because they have been remastered such as older Bowie discs, the older Stones records etc and the remasters have universally been improvements over the older versions. Occasionally a new record will come out in Hi Res. Several groups are allowing this such as King Crimson, The Shins and Wilco. Obviously I have no old recordings to compare these too but they are all first class projects all the way through and they do sound better than your usual CD and dynamic compression is used much more sparingly so they are as or more dynamic than an LP. |
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