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When does analog compete with digital?

With vinyl becoming all the rage, many believe (perhaps mistakenly) that a budget of $1K will allow them to bring their analog front end up to par with their digital. I would like a reasoned assessment of this issue.

How much time, money, and expertise do you think is necessary before one can seriously claim that their analog front end can compete with their digital? What characteristics, if any, are simply incommensurable between these two mediums? Let's use my system as an example.

Personally, I tried to build an analog front-end that focused on texture/warmth (as opposed to dynamics), but I still feel as though something is missing. Trouble is, I can't quite put my finger on it. I'd be grateful for comments/suggestions (system in sig)
jferreir
audiofeil
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>>07-26-10: Orpheus10
2K is the bottom line for analog to compete with digital<<

Disagree.

A pre-owned Music Hall MMF-7 and a pre-owned Graham Slee Era Gold Mark V will cost about $1000 for the pair.

The combo will startle even the most dubious.

IMO

I have no financial interest in either product.
orpheus10
8,668 posts
 
audiofeil, there is much ambiguity in all statements regarding this. I am comparing my bonified class "A" digital to analog. It was not until I had spent 2K, not counting cartridge, that I had 3D sound that exceeded the digital. I accomplished this through numerous tweeks including changing the tonearm wire. Total cost was 2K.
orpheus10
8,668 posts
 
theron_day, after reading what you got, I know what it sounds like, and that is what I'm talking about.
audiofeil
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What is Class A digital?

Is a nebulous term that surely differs from person to person. Your Class A is my Class C.

And please don't give me that Stereophile Class A sh** definition.

That's a product of audio lobbyists.

IMO
t_bone
1,182 posts
 
Bill,
If it has been bonified, it must be good.
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