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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.
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detlof
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Steve Nugent of Empirical Audio proudly declares that his latest USB dac finally not equals but may even surpass vinyl. The man has golden ears apart from being a technically ingenious and highly innovative. I find , that he is right. It is all there now, the soul I mean. It IS still different from vinyl, but digital is not musically "dead" anymore. Even older CDs can be brought to be "soulfully" alive. I find the discussion of what is "better", digital or vinyl, should end. The music has come home to us.
detlof
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Correction:
I should have written that Steve N. declared that his latest DAC finally not ONLY equals but may be even surpass vinyl.....
Sorry
dcbingaman
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It's there now - IF you use the right A/D and DAC systems.

Nearly ALL professional recording set-ups are digital today, so even if you think you are listening to an all analog chain - it some point before you bought it, your record was digitally mastered.

The best digital systems run at 24-bit / 96 kHz and, if the bitstream is reconstructed using apodizing (time-domain-optimized) filters, it is completely transparent to my ears.
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boonetrc
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ummmm, never.
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markalarsen
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It is available now. Jitter is the enemy of digital. Current high-end DACs and format converts now measure jitter in femtoseconds rather than picoseconds.

The problem we all face in a few years is that high-quality formats are disappearing. In a decade we all will look back at the good old days when high quality red books CDs were available.
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