Have digital players improved

Dev, iv'e owned many fine analog rigs in the past and am exposed to analog regularly do to my involvement with a local audio club, in fact thats all there was except AM radio for many years before the evil days of early digital came along, so I've heard more LP's in my life than I can hazard to guess and some of the system's i've been exposed to recently are in the stratospheric price range .
I guess now is when your going to tell me they were all setup wrong.
You haven't answered the question about why you troll the digital sites?

Tmsosk, that's not a answer, who cares what you have listened to in other set-ups. That's just an easy cop out and clearly demonstrats your lack of credibility.

I see you are not answering my question so I'll ask again;

"Kindly enlighten us by providing a list of what you feel are your top 3 prefered red-book players and a list of your prefered 3 tables with arm/cart combo's you have owned or had in your own system comparing these two formats to come to the conclusion you speak of."

What red-book player are you using currently? Arc Ref8?

Tmsorosk wrote;

"You haven't answered the question about why you troll the digital sites?"

You never asked me a question, firstly you are the troll and your thread posting clearly demonstrates such, you sure can push those keys but try reading some time and you will find your answer in my above responces.

hi tim:

for the record the sound i most preferred was the following system:

stacked quad esls, 4 quad mono tube amps, mac c22 pre, thorens td 124 table, with ortofon cartridge and arm.

i have heard many systems since 1966, when i owned the above, and none have i liked as much as what i owned back in 1967.

of course, tha's just my opinion.

personally, as i have often said stacked esls are my favorite sspeaker.

Yes. Is the short answer. The ones I have tried are more natural, focused & cleaner than earlier versions. Not forgetting the ability to play higher sample rates.

In my personal opinion, both vinyl and digital have greatly improved. Most week nights I listen to a music server and have used highly modified Oppos. With the Apple remote, I can just touch an album or play list and have it play. I get a very real sound stage and dynamic with great bass and top end extension. Were I to not have a vinyl system I would be very happy. What do I prefer about my vinyl system, simply realism! Have I always had it? No! I have a fine tt, a Bergman Sindre and the Ortofon A-90 cartridge, but when I got the BMC MCCI phono stage I was just dumbfounded with what I heard. Do I get tired of changing records? Yes. Life is not a picnic.