Does Anyone Think CD is Better Than Vinyl/Analog?

The thing about digital is you have to look at source issues for converting to digital formats.

once turned to digital the information is brick walled, nothing more can be retrieved from it.

The next point is that there is a fundamental flaw in all Analog to Digital converters. You’ll have to dig around to really get into it, but the flaw is a real problem and no one has been able to deal with..or correct it, so far. When I say all, I really mean all A/D in existence.

Words are cheap, as in "First...we’ll convert the signal to digital".

And then, more sentences connected to the first are uttered.

But..but..the following sentences are meaningless if the fundamental flaw in the original simplistic pronouncement is unknown and unrealized by most. The technical challenges of fixing the mostly unknown fundamental flaw that remains deep inside the equation... is not swayed or altered by a bunch of grouped letters.

But it is glossed over fairly efficiently.

I am using Esoteric 03XD cd player which is top line my turntable TW ACUSTIC AC3 withTW 10.5 arm and Transfiguration Proteus with TW ACUSTIC Phono stage RPS100 is better.LPs have always been better if you have a high resolution system.

I have owned and listened to a heck of a lot of music since 1960, age 12. Inherited quality equipment and began focused listening 1973, 47 years.ago.

My system: same music, all 3 formats: everybody picks LP over CD, and everybody picks R2R over LP. Also, everybody picks tubes over SS.

How can two systems, both progressively more ’noise’ beat CDs with ’ZERO NOISE’?

People yap about even/odd distortion, ... My KISS explanation is this: Analog captures and reproduces the timing of the fundamentals and overtones better, a more involving way. No listening fatigue occurs.

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Want More Music: Quit Something!

I quit smoking in 1988 (32 years ago) coincidentally when quality CD players became more affordable. Perfect, stopped listening to LP’s for years. I decided to spend all my tobacco money on music or music equipment as an encouraging treat. Carton a week was $700 a year in 1998. As tobacco cost went up, I gave myself a rise in pay every year, carton a week now costs $4,400. in NJ; $5,700. in NYC.

I stopped doing this when I semi-retired 10 years ago, carton a week then $3,500. so it was 22 years.

I was just thinking about a treat, it’s crazy how 22 years accumulates.
Around 5,000 CDs, 2,500 LPs, and 500 Reel to Reel Tapes. I’m cleaning old LP’s, weeding, selling, buying new LPs. It never occurs to me to buy a new CD, but recently, to get a certain pianist (Paul Shrofel) I bought a few.

That got me listening to some favorite CD’s. Musicians, and Content can be terrific, but, in any format, it’s the recording/engineering that makes the huge difference, degree of involvement we have come to be aware of and appreciate.

A TT system must be properly setup, successfully aligned to beat CD, so very many have never had or heard one properly set up, and never thought an LP could sound as good as or better than a CD.

R2R was a rich man’s game, got more affordable, especially for servicemen stationed in Asia (cameras too). Again, I inherited both tapes and player, amazing, instantly amazing. Out of the box, no special alignment needed when new and for many years.

R2R is my best source material, but, content is limited by time: newer performer’s music does not exist on pre-recorded tape.

"Analog captures and reproduces the timing of the fundamentals and overtones better, a more involving way. No listening fatigue occurs. "
Nailed it.