Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"

I trust you on this.....And it is very interesting to know this experiment of yours bigkidz ...

I must be a little deaf tough.... 😊

With my relatively low cost minimalistic NOS dac, Starting Point Systems with an internal battery and very low noise level because of that and his single TDA 1543 chip with almost nothing else to create noise and a very well embedded acoustically, mechanically and electrically audio system, i listen to no detectable digital glare or digital noise....My Sound is holographic, with natural instrumental timbre without the fatiguing highs at all.... And even if my Sansui AU 7700 is S.S. the sound is better than my past tube amplifier....I cannot even listen no more to any of my headphones including 2 stax, 2 different orthodynamic, 2 dynamic one and a hybrid because my speakers are better than any of them now on all count including details....

Then....I must be deaf without knowing it perhaps ?....

Or i am like those who addicted to porn called it love...

Because for vinyl afficionados digital is 2 dimension porn compared to the 3-d living love....

I am damned without even knowing it....😮😯😪😶 Like Calvin already demonstrated it before the success of protestant capitalism which was a way for the lucky rich to know that God choose them to be like they are: rich... ( i apologize to digress, i am not only half deaf but a bit nut it seems)

And i dont mock you, i take your own experiment seriously but what?
What about mine?

Food for toughts indeed....I dont eliminate the fact that habit condition us all even me....😁

Merry Christmas to you and thanks for this interesting post.......

@mahgister- thank you and a thousand holiday blessings to be bestowed upon you as well. 
Time is a construct. Back to the nuclear lab before they know I'm missing. :)
Bill

There way too many variables within this argument.  I started out in the late 60’s with decent separates, and the only choices were turntables, then reel to reel for recording LPs.  Eight tracks were never considered, due to performance issues.

Fast forward to the 80s when CDs came out in force.   The combination of diminished size and less fussiness and the ability to play the same item at home and in cars killed the underperforming cassettes.

Now we have DACs, streaming and a variety of ways to take music anywhere.

What gets lost in all the arguments is system price points versus sound quality.  The few with unlimited budgets live in a different world tan most of the rest of us.

I am lucky in that I live somewhere in the upper middle ground.  My current system makes it sound like Eva Cassidy is in the room singing directly to me.  This is in a digital format.  Time and circumstance (divorce) caused me to lose my vinyl rig years ago and I decided my constant moving back then was not conducive to rebuilding in vinyl.

I still love what vinyl does, but the structural impediments keep me from revisiting the form, Not the sound.

I would posit that what we see if fairly comparing systems at a variety of budget constraints is that decent sound can be acquired at a modest cost, then you get into the audiophile marginal cost versus marginal gain debate that will never be resolved for all the known reason.  Once you pass the point of five figures in your system, gains at the margin become ever thinner.

In context for this debate, I own a Mercedes E400 coupe that has all the bells and whistles, and my other car is a 1958 Austin-Healey Bugeye sprite that makes me smile every single day.

Enjoy your rig, digital, vinyl or both, no one will make you change your mind, most of all, enjoy the Music!

lhasaguy thanks for another wise post...

I would posit that what we see if fairly comparing systems at a variety of budget constraints is that decent sound can be acquired at a modest cost, then you get into the audiophile marginal cost versus marginal gain debate that will never be resolved for all the known reason. Once you pass the point of five figures in your system, gains at the margin become ever thinner

Wise indeed and truthful for me....



Just a remark coming from my own experience with a 500 hundred dollars system... Way more low than 5 figure budget then...
My experience is that money generally dont necessarily buy an audiophile experience, rightful embeddings controls almost always did it ....

Because there is no reason an amplifier at any price will  sound good in a non mechanically embedded audio system, in a high noise floor electrical grid house, and in a badly acoustically designed room....






Merry Christmas to you....

@mahgister- thank you and a thousand holiday blessings to be bestowed upon you as well.
Time is a construct. Back to the nuclear lab before they know I’m missing. :)
Bill

Take care of the radiation....

Time indeed is a construct of the brain, i think we live on at least 2 levels at the same time: ( past «-now) and( future-» now) the brain filter information from this 2 locations in time creating our freedom answers and questions in the now moment to these 2 almost simultaneous rythmical flows of information...

Back to my asylum with my friend Einstein....😁😏

Merry Christmas....