Frail and Bedazzled


I just set up my vinyl rig and I must say I didn't expect it to best my digital setup by this margin. My 2-3 best SACDs through my digital rig may compete but damn...I am having a personal vinyl resurgence. Merry Christmas all.
troutki50
Ha MC. Yes, I still have some tweaks to go and will recalibrate things in a couple weeks.
troutki50, It sounds like your digital side needs some work also. In my own experience it is about 50/50. I do download a lot of hi res files and everything is up sampled to 24/192. Having said that I have a brand new turntable on the way. A Sota Cosmos Vacuum with a Schroder CB arm and Soundsmith "The Voice" cartridge. I finally decided to try a Soundsmith as quite a few people like them and there are aspects to the design that make good sense. I have never seen a cantilever this thin and the quality of manufacture is first class. I may have to stop dissing Peter even if his office has been classified as a super fund site.
@troutki50  Congrats on your discoveries!  Please let us know what your system make-up is.  I have a lot invested into both my analog and my digital set-ups and can honestly say that the analog side is better, but my digital side is also amazing, so I would say that my enjoyment of analog is only about 10-20% more than digital.  Digital is great for streaming and exploring new music, and for listening all day when you don't want to mess with flipping records.  I use digital streaming to find records that I want to own.  
One other thing, and this is not meant to dampen your enthusiasm, but you should be very careful about what you buy on vinyl if you want to get the highest level of enjoyment from it.  
I have bought a lot of new vinyl that really doesn't sound that good.  The best stuff is on proven labels that care about the source material and are transparent about the total chain of production.  If a reissue doesn't have this info on the hype sticker or in the liner notes it's a pretty obvious sign that the vinyl issue might not be that great.  
When I first started getting seriously back into vinyl (about 12 years ago) I just bought records assuming that they were better than the original pressings.  I accumulated a lot of records that I didn't enjoy.  Now I do the research very carefully before I buy, and this has made a huge difference.  
Happy listening!
Peter
@snackeyp   My experiences are similar to yours and I use digital the same as you - mainly exploring for new material and when I have the music on in the background, more or less. I can't however quantify how much more I enjoy the vinyl over digital.  The presentation is just so entirely different - with vinyl the music flows so freely like comparing pushing water through a 1-inch pipe (digital) to a free-flowing river (analog). 
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