Not as much activity on analog here

I love good analog sound as much as the next guy, but these days I am loving digital as well and it is getting most of my play time. Analog is treading water essentially for most. You have to really love it exclusively to make the investment asked by a lot of the high end manufacturers these days, as it becomes more of a niche. It is what it is. Good sound, sometimes the best, but that's it. Digital enables good sound and so much more these days and continues to advance. Analog is old hat. Can't fight progress. Lots of analog out there still for those who can't do otherwise. I still love the sound of a good quality vintage analog recording on vinyl, but the ones with teh most to offer sonically thes days are releases that few have interest in these days. Almost everything popular over the years has been released and often remastered digitally by now. Goodwill is the place I go to find special sound treats that are unique and affordable.

"Are we a community that has not grown much"

Probably. THis stuff is EXPENSIVE!

"all our questions have been interested ?"

I think the biggest and most relevant questions mostly have if one takes the time to look. One off things still come up.

"Is digital finally getting the soul of the music right?"

Good digital is quite competitive these days, more affordable, more versatile, and still growing and evolving a lot. What else is there?

Statistics, even if availble, can be massaged to show whatever one wants usually. All one has to do is read and look around to get a sense of what is really going on.

Vinyl/analog source material and gear continues as a niche technology, maybe even with some growth in recent years I suspect.

Once digital hits the DAC, the rest is and will always still be all analog, unless converted back to digital again downstream for some reason, if that's any consolation. :-)

Thanks for your response Mapman. Some digital is really really good. I've got a lot of digital from 80s that is really bad too. I feel lied to by the music industry in the 80's with" perfect sound forever" As Michael Fremer once said. "Digital preserves music like formaldehyde preserves frogs. Kill it and it lasts forever" . Digital now has come a long way. Even some old recording that have been properly redone, re-engineered, remastered sounds better than vinyl. They do cheat a little in that regard. On the other hand just the other night I listened to Simon & Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage Rosemary and Thyme from their 5 record box set. Then I listened to digital remastered cd from the 2000's. Record came out on top in every way.

I don't think it's that there is less interest, but there are only so many things you can talk about. We've discussed record cleaning to death, cartridge alignment, VTA, SRA and everything else you can think of. There is really nothing new. Buy a good tt, a good cart, set it up correctly, clean your records and listen. It reminds me why I stopped subscribing to Golf Digest. It's a great game, but there are only so many articles you can read on how to putt. Now it's time to stop talking and start listening. Really.