very disappointed about my system setup

Which Dynavector do you have? How old is it? (Grados are incompatible with Linns) What interconnects are you using.

I had a Dynavector Ruby once that I thought sounded lifeless - very descriptive, it was towards its end of life so perhaps that is one way to reason....IS the Linn new or used?

Viridian, Paradigm shift? For the edification of all concerned, care to explain what this means in the context used. Bluebottle, maybe your longing for vinyl is simply based on nostalgia? Maybe your disappointment is tantamount to the shock of meeting an old flame years after the fact and realising she ain't exactly as you remembered? Naw, must be adjustments to the equipment or retraining your ear to get rid of the after effects of too much cd listening (are you for real?), the need for new cartridge, a new arm, a new record cleaning machine, or the occasional poor recording or poor pressing, or ... You know with analog it's always minor adjustments, with digital the system is screwed up from the get go. Thank your lucky star you always have help here so you won't fall off the wagon. Listen to what pleases you, if that happens to be cd, don't feel like you let down the side. Try to sort it out, if all else fails seems you have a pretty decent fallback position. Good day.

Pbb,

Are you cranky like this all the time? Or did you just have your old flame stolen by a vinyl addict and use this forum for a whipping post?

Cranky as all hell, I guess. Sorry, I had promised myself that I would refrain from commenting on tt/vinyl. I shouldn't write too early in the morning or too late at night. I still find vinyl noisy and continue to scratch my head as to why, on balance, certain people deem it so superior to anything else. Call me deaf, I guess, or worse... BTW a very well respected contributor to Audiogon with a very high quality (the highest) tt/arm/cart/pre set-up is on record as indicating that something like 30% of his vinyl collection is noisy. Is it any wonder that with my very humble analog rig I am still bothered by surface noise? I know of no preamp that is designed and constructed in such a way as to mitigate impulse noise. I am not saying they don't exist, I am just curious as to what preamp and what exactly in such a preamp de-emphasizes impulse noise and would appreciate knowing about it. Maybe, in fact, the original poster has to re-form, re-attune his ears to vinyl. Which seems to support my long held contention that whatever (short of absolute garbage) one listens to, it becomes de facto his/her standard in a way. The converse being also true, that when one gets the urge to upgrade or change something in his/her system, any kind of change (short of absolute garbage) is welcomed as an improvement, until the urge strikes again. And then there is the possibility that the original poster simply prefers cd...