How much do you need to spend to get digital to rival analog?

Room acoustics are extremely important but that avoids the question. Given the same room and system how much do you have to spend on digital to equal the performance of a $3K turntable. I do not know if that includes the cartridge and tonearm but say it does which means it is not a very high end table. It would be one of intermediate performance. You could probably beat it with a $2K computer and usb interface. That does not include the DAC but the turntable does not include the phono amp. 

Exactly! Assume the same room. I guess we should assume attention is given to isolation, RFI/EMI, too. It’s difficult or maybe impossible to have a level playing field.

I do not evade the question.... My point is about fundamentals to an audiophile experience....And give me the money + these fundamentals implemented in a room I will give you the best of digital or analog "relatively" equal in quality almost on par with each other...Because in a " particular system" the answer will be yes or no relatively to many factors, not only the gear price, but many other factors...People dont understand that the problem cannot be solved in the " same room"  because "this same room"  is only "a particular room" … In another room the answer will be another answer.... It is basic …:) The digital sound and the vinyl sound dont exist by itself in the blue sky of audio idealities with a value attached to them....They exist implemented and manifest to some ears in a particular environment with a particular audio system...

My point is that money only cannot solve the question once and for all, at least a reasonable amount of money by itself cannot resolve the question once and for all, without taking account of the room grid, house grid, audio electrical grid and mechanical vibrations grid, etc... And the ears factor :)

In some room be it the "same" for the experiment the vinyl will be best.... And alternatively in another room, or better said in another audio experiment with other gear and tweaks, and system, the digital will be best...It is a relative comparison, there is no ABSOLUTE answer to that... And no room by itseIf magically decide once and for all that a vinyl rig or a digital rig is the best...This is not only engineering good sense it is basic reasoning...

A vinyl or a digital files are only one factor in a chain of so many factors implicated in a specific audio experience than deciding that in a particular room, be it "the same", vinyl or digital are the winner had no signification except for that particular room, particular audio system, room environment and ears....


It is like tube quality amp. versus S.S. amp. debate controversy, there is no absolute...Sansui takes 25 years to replicate exactly the sound of their best tube amplifier in solid state form and they demonstrate the fact...It is the same thing for engineering digital or vinyl contest...