Not as much activity on analog here

When I started my journey in the early 90's, I had nothing. Don't forget, that was the time where EVERYBODY said and wrote that anlog is dead and will be buried in the next years. I went to several Dealers, charged their Demo room and did compare Vinyl and Digital. My investments were done in Analog. My Dealer said "You want W-H-A-T???" A turnable, a cartridge and a Phonostage, please...
In the following years I had top of the line Digital and listen to those Demos until today. It is made for mass market, entertainment but until today I NEVER heard a Digital combo sounding like the real thing with 10 CD's in a row.
Analog is a chain, Arm, Table, Cable, Cartridge, Phonostage....RCM... a lot can be done wrong but....when done right, it can send you into the recording session.
No matter what you or we think, in a few years Analog is the ONLY High End (no matter what quality). It can be seen, it can be touched, the Owner "does" something and at least he can watch a unit which spins... :-)
HiRes Download? Give me a break...the next joke is prepared.

Amen Syntax, Amen.

I believe you are in for a surprise Syntax. You do know that most recording is done digitally now, don't you?

BluerRanger
If you become board with few questions and topics in this analogue category today ,search through the archives ,you will notice many of the same questions and arguemnts re-hashed like a skipping record,..
I'm in agreement with Syntax ,much can be learned from him.

I believe you are in for a surprise Syntax. You do know that most recording is done digitally now, don't you?

you may be right. One problem...the bulk of the music engineered in digital just plain sucks. Music mastered in analog from the 50's-80's.... Music that really matters sounds best in analog form....tape or vinyl. Digital a/d, compressed and normalized just doesn't cut it.