When is digital going to get the soul of music?

If you experiment with speakers, you can get pretty close to it now.

I think speakers are the most vital part of the chain.

I am listening to old JBL Lancer speakers with Alnico woofers, and sansui receiver - with a sony CD player, and the sound is enjoyable.

Sometimes it brings tears to my eyes and that's good enough for me...

I believe in alnico !

I just wanted to mention a few things here about digital. One well-respected reviewer says that he has "a 1985 chip, no oversampling, no digital filter, and a proprietary tube-based, re-construction filter at the end. I know that someone here recommended oversampling. Someone else said that advances in the last 4-5 years have elevated cd playback. A designer said that DSP corrections are where it's at. There was one other thing mentioned, but I think it might have to do with what Meitner does(I can't find it.)? Any further thoughts?

That other thing mentioned was " the original multi-MB sampling rate of Sony hi-res format(SDS) was found by TAS to be superior to analog".

Tvad: "Mmakshak" is a paying customer. I often invite local customers over to listen and compare their cables to mine. I appreciate a word of mouth, but I don't ask anybody to post anything. In this particular case, to post a lot...
If you ever get to know Mmakshak, you are surely to find that he is a very enthusiastic person... At this point, I think he has said just about all he can or should say about his relationship with Oritek Audio: a local paying customer.
If you are local, drop me a line too and come over to listen for yourself. You don't have to buy anything, but you do have to bring an interesting set of cables, or an amp maybe... That is my "fee"...