Vinyl lovers I must be crazy

If you're using that conversion system and can't hear the difference between your records and your hard drive files then I don't what to say. You should be able to hear the difference from across the street at rush hour.

The solution is simple for me, I do have much invested in my analog setup because the most critical listening I do is in the living room. Now, I also have other systems that I do more casual listening, and here is where my Denon CDR comes into play. I record directly from my phono pre into the Denon via RCA or XLR. You can’t get any better than that IMO. I then listen to those recording on my other systems...including my car stereo. The recordings beat the heck out of the same music purchase on CD. I then can convert the recorded cd's into any format that I want through the PC. This way I can archive my recordings into lossless format for any time I want to make a copy. All this through a 500 dollar Denon professional CDR.

From across the Atlantic at any hour. Orpheus10, this sounds strange to me, really.

Orhpeus 10,
Just reading about your set-up makes me NEVER even want to try to replicate it. Part of the allure of the analog experience is the physical and tactile sensation of cuing the tonearm in and dropping the stylus onto the vinyl. And that's even before the sound comes. And when it does come, it cannot be replicated. Burning, ripping, converting, recording, processing, storing, etc., vinyl is as close to the analog experience as is licking ice cream through a glass window to tasting real ice cream. Stop licking the window and get the real ice cream, man!

Inna, the 8000-C and my Grado Sonata are a match made in heaven. They have incredible synergy; the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. If you research the 8000-C, you will discover it has an exceptional phono section.

Since it was gathering dust, I decided to put it to use; was I surprised. The setup I described comes under "weird true and freaky", but it works.

The subtle musical nuances I hear on playback of my treasured vinyl, enable me to return to that lounge where we played our favorite tune, over and over; or looked across the sea at sunset.

This magic carpet ride continues all night long. I used two baluns and Cat-5 to run a signal to the bedroom. Nothing evokes emotions like music properly reproduced. It enables one to experience feelings of times past that put a glow in their hearts, and a smile on their face; the music never stops here.