Can you Listen to Vinyl Casually??

I do the same thing all the time. Though my analog collection and analog front end is way-way better than my digital side because of the way I've spent my money. Still, when outside, I do really enjoy my ipod.

Eldartford.

Once sentence - clean your LP's. no debris on my stylus, unless the record is dirty. Try doing that with a dirty CD - It won't play.

Cincy_bob

Please don't give me another reason to spend more money!!.

I'll skip the SOTA CD player for the moment and keep playing CD's for my kids or in the car where they belong.

Ncarv

I bought the Linn new in 1985, had it upgraded etc and frankly can't bear to sell it as it was the Linn that forged the analog way for me.

The Linn is competitive or better than the HRX in treble smoothness and has a nice tight PRATty bass line. However the HRX is just plain better in most other respects, bass depth, power, dynamics,transparency soundstaging and just a bigger more lifelike presentation.

Vinyl is simply more involving than digital - period. It is no wonder that you are being pulled into the listening chair when playing your analog rig; involvement is one of analog's main attributes. I listen to digital when I am feeling lazy or want to pop in some background music. Some folks have mentioned to me, "if your analog rig sounds that much better than your digital rig, you need a better CD player." Tee-hee...I already own one of the best CD player out there, so much for that logic.