Can you Listen to Vinyl Casually??

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.

How about "if your digital rig sounds equal or better than your analog rig then your turntable isn't setup correctly!"

I do have to say that my Lector 7 CD player is the most analogue sounding CD player I have heard. It has it's moments where it draws me in like vinyl but at the end of the day it can't even come close. It's just there for those recordings I can't get on LP.