What CDP gets really close to vinyl?

>>03-21-11: Tmsorosk
With digital like this who needs vinyl<<

When you hear a real honest kick a** vinyl front end, you'll get it.

Until then, enjoy your bytes.

Digital has made terrific advancements in the past 5 years or so. However, a SOTA analog front end is still clearly superior. You're welcome to stop by for a listen.

Vinyl Rules!!!!

Give 'em hell Bill!!

Hello Bill .. I have heard many fine vinyl rigs , at friends as well as in the salons , And I can say a few of them surpassed my digital setup in a few ways but lost out in a few others , i guess were back to personal preference again . But those fine vinyl spinners cost almost five times what my Ayre/Levinson combo did and my dac has many uses .
You are also welcome any time as is any real audiophile . Regards Tim

Sorry muralboy I don't make house calls to hear inferior systems.

You want a shoot out, it's here where any of my vinyl rigs will blast your fisher price digital toys.

Show up or shut up.

Tim, I agree that the best vinyl costs more, digital is more practical etc. etc. However, outside of convenience, a properly designed analog front end does not lose in any way to a digital source. No way, no how. Been doing this far too long. Personal preference? Perhaps, but it's no coincidence that Audiogon's most experience and knowledgable members are vinylphiles not muralboys.

I'm out of here; this is way too easy.

The best digital front end for $6k I have heard is the PS Audio Perfect wav system. You can burn hi-resolution wav files up to 24/192 and play them back natively via the PW transport on DVD or via the music server option in the DAC alone (The Bridge). CD's in 16/44 sound very good too. No need to upsample, just play back natively. The transport is a memory reader, so it' buffers the audio data, removes jitter prior to the D/A conversion. The memory player elimimates alot of the problems inherant in reading and converting the data on the fly via traditional cd transports since cd reading error correction is not needed. The data is reclocked in the buffer stage and then read out to the D/A. For digital, I love the perfect wav system. Of course my analog rig trounces it....especially the 16 bit source material.