Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it.

Doug, I agree with you totally about Herbert V. But, my point was that he loved digital and he unquestionably loved music. This must have been an 'exception' to Pauly's proclamation. I'm sure there are many others.

Personally speaking I didn't even care for HVK's music all that much and his recordings of it were even less to brag about, much less. On vinyl or later on digital! So much for equipment freaks, musicians or not. :-)

But I love Bernstein, warts and all. His enthusiasm makes up for a lot of excesses. At least he was never bland.

But forgive me for not joining in the analog v digital argument, its old, stale, and unresolvable. But, IMHO, the differences in formats should not give rise to the arrogant denegration of those who don't share either formats advocates opinions, such as that espoused by Pauly.

FWIW

Pauly, ROTFLMAO. You love music so much. You must because of all of your proclaimations. But, interestingly you have never posted a thread or responded to anyone who asked a question about music. Do you consider all posts in the music forum beneath you. Or do you just talk about music in the context of your perferred method of reproducing recordings. You must have something to share about music as valuable as that which you share about audio.

Credit must be given where due. You are consistent. No weak kneed recantations here!

Pauly, I must recant. I just read your response to Shadrone wherein you admit to knowing audiophiles who are musicophiles as well as digitalphiles. Apparently not vinylphiles. Good for you. Nice to know that some digitalphiles can love music. Now, what I need to know is how much money and effort a digitalphile must spend to become a music lover. That seems to be the price of admission. :-) Ergo, the rich can enjoy music and sound, the poor can enjoy music only thru vinyl, even cheap vinyl systems. Right? :-)

Newbee, there is a price of admission, but it is more than just money.

Anybody that really likes music would want to hear it reproduced in the most accurate and natural way possible. Setting up a system to do that invariably takes time, effort and money. Anybody that feels that it is not worthwhile spending time, money and effort in this endeavor is not really serious about music.

All things equal, a CD fronted system cannot match an analogue system. Never has, never will; for all but the very lowest budget.

My apologies for not posting on the music forum. I wasn't aware it was mandatory ...

Regards
Paul