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

I think these forums are often just a window for lonely older men to try to connect with others.....

what do you think most forums are? a free advertisement for electronic parts by ordinary dude that boast their amplifier? Or is it an audio engineer only forum here?

No it is a place where anybody can explain freely his experience and ideas mainly about audio for sure... Age has nothing to do with that but for sure i am old and i have time for music ....

My posts said something about exactly why for most people this debate analog/digital has no meaning.... Answer to that.... And dont give me lesson in elliptical rhetoric or about old age...

@mahgister
Interesting you heard pretty much on this video what I did.

Thanks i am happy that someone had really read my post....

Yes i think that in this case the room treatment is catastrophic and the dac and the audio system is not well embedded if this is probably a very good dac like it seems...

Any room treatment must be adressed in a small room (unlike in a theater or vast concert hall where reflective surface and synchonization of waves dont play the same game) to the specific audio system and to the geometry and topology and content of the room...I learn myself for the last 2 years how to acoustically embed my own room and it is not a " formula" you can sell like some affirm it to be....It is different for each room....

Applying a computer formula in a small room will not do it...

Ears are Ears and we must wait for acoustical A.I. that is not sold for the moment... 😁

In this case i think a turntable would had been better, because in general analog is more robust to attack from a too cold and harsh room, not because digital is harsh in itself, but because a natural musical instrumental timbre digitalization apparatus is not a  so well spread product anyway, and the way to embed a dac  is not understood at all...like for the audio system embeddings anyway...Then even good dac need help....

But analog or digital anyway need badly mechanical, electrical and acoustical embeddings...

Thanks for your confirmation of my impression...

Like i already said this audio system in youtube is vastly superior to mine ( a low cost one) BUT is badly embedded and it is easy to listen to this fact....

I am not alone.... Thank you michelle....😊

Happy New Year....

I just fell in love with vynil two or three yrs ago. Really before I am ok and very happy with digital, still do ,I bought 2 sacd players 5 yrs ago, Yamaha 1000S And marantz 8005 sacd , I still like digital,thinking, Iam happy to have my music hall 5.2 tt, with goldring  cart, and built in phono pre on my preamp. That’s it. Until I decided to visit friends who has good vynil set up, then I heard and felt something on  vynil that I have never experienced, the rest is history, I fell in love with vynil, I bought good turntable and good phono pre.if I have time to listen I prefer vynil, if Iam doing something digital is perfect.

I think you know as I do mahgister how silly youtube videos are like this.  The echo in the original track is intentional, it is part of the recording, though I believe there is a bit of evidence of additional room reflections where the microphone is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gueDCNUAapI

I do find these tests funny though.  I am pretty certain there was a minor volume difference between the two amps. You don't use a sound meter to level match for amplifiers. A $10 multimeter would be orders of magnitude more accurate with a sine wave.   The simple act of people being in a different place in the room can have more impact in the recording than changing the amp or speakers will.