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When is digital going to get the soul of music?

I have to ask this(actually, I thought I mentioned this in another thread.). It's been at least 25 years of digital. The equivalent in vinyl is 1975. I am currently listening to a pre-1975 album. It conveys the soul of music. Although digital may be more detailed, and even gives more detail than analog does(in a way), when will it convey the soul of music. This has escaped digital, as far as I can tell.
mmakshak
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robm321
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Well the best argument I can think of is the fact that analog is still around. It's inconvenient, you need more components. You have to search hard for records without scratches, there's too much to go into just to get things right. CD you pop them in.

So, if digital could match it, there wouldn't be any TT's except for maybe the stuborn die hards. I hope that one day it can, so that I can stop buying record cleaner and stop replacing my cartridges.

philnyc
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I haven't read this whole thread, so forgive me if this has already been said...but I believe the soul of the music is in the performance, not in the playback format...even listening to an old Robert Johnson recording on AM radio sounds soulful to me... ;-)
robm321
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Yes. Philnyc. I listen to his recording in my car and agree that Robert Johnson has the soul thing down no matter what you listen to him on.
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