Can you Listen to Vinyl Casually??

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.

Downunder...Sorry but that doesn't work. I live in a 200+ year old house in rural New England. To make things worse, at this time of year pollen is heavy in the air.

I never have a problem with CDs or DVDs. To my great surprise I even used a CD player in the room where I was doing a huge carpentry project, with sawdust level so high that it was hard to breathe, and no problem.

In my "real" system, which lives in a slightly better environment, I never, repeat never, have a problem with CDs. This for several decades of use. I never clean CDs (if it ain't broke don't fix it) although I do handle them with the same care as LPs so there are no fingerprints on them. So many people report problems with CDs that I really suspect that frequent cleaning may actually cause the problem. I know this is true of Lab optical devices, which you never clean except for brushing away any dust with a soft brush, and that every couple of years.