What CDP gets really close to vinyl?

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.

I just ran across a new (to me, at least), CD format, called LPCD. Attributed to Mr Aik Yew-Goh of Hugo Productions Ltd HK. It is purported to replicate a more analog sound from cd. My post may not quite belong here, tho I do not possess the masochistic tendencies needed to begin a thread!

audiofeil, all you do is pontificate blowing out a lot of hot air helping no one to the truth. You have no idea what I have here. Not one iota. You are just a dealer who is sore at me because you just can't stand someone talking about a system's greatness when nothing you sell is part of that system.

audiofeil:

my being a reviewer has nothing to do with your comment about changing your position.

you and i are like oil and water.

i suspect you would disagree with anything i said, even if you held to the position yourself. you tend to be contentious, ornery and not a very nice person.

the issue of being a reviewer is merely a smokescreen for your psychological problems. see a shrink. you'll live longer.