"Thanks Youngsters"??? mrpgray is was us old farts that got the youngsters into vinyl in the first place!
I think mwinkc has it right. You have to go wherever the music is. I remember how bad I thought CD was until I heard the original release of Lauri Anderson's Mr Heartbreak. Darn, you could make a CD sound pretty good if you wanted to. We use to blow customers away with CDs like the original Telarc Firebird, ka BOOM! I still play that CD when I want to make a subwoofer impression. This is where digital rules, in the deep bass. My own rule of thumb is if it was recorded in analog it should be played back that way and same for digital.
I think mwinkc has it right. You have to go wherever the music is. I remember how bad I thought CD was until I heard the original release of Lauri Anderson's Mr Heartbreak. Darn, you could make a CD sound pretty good if you wanted to. We use to blow customers away with CDs like the original Telarc Firebird, ka BOOM! I still play that CD when I want to make a subwoofer impression. This is where digital rules, in the deep bass. My own rule of thumb is if it was recorded in analog it should be played back that way and same for digital.