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Don't revive the relatively futile "analog versus digital debate"

It seems clear there is no reasonable way for most audiophiles of modest means to make a sensible comparison. We can't fly with our favorite LP to some rich guy's house and listen on a system of nearly infinite resolving power, like J.E. In any case you could never repeat the experiment reliably.

My small experience using a 'pretty good' prosumer digital recorder indicated the difference between carefully recorded copies of some favorite LP's and the LP, played on the TT I recorded it from, were such that I couldn't resolve them on my own stereo, given its resolving power.

The crux of this biscuit lies in the limits of resolution and the built-in biases of one's system. I've been doing some gear-swapping recently and have just listened to a beloved album from LP, CD, and lossless file (made from the CD), referring to the LP as a sort of baseline. I love my vinyl and am deeply satisfied with the way my LP playback sounds. But without detailed explanation, I'm feeling right now that the most laid-back toe-tappin' groovy presentation came from the lossless files - IN MY SYSTEM. This conclusion applies to no one else's system.

There are only a handful of my 5000 albums that I have in digital + vinyl formats, so the comparison serves no real purpose for me either. The differences of the vinyl versus digital are fairly clear but not that important really- both are very tasty, just slightly different flavors. To make a sweeping generalization about vinyl always being better is unsupportable; I just want to listen to music!

Regardless of all this philosophical BS (Bears*it), Magic Carpet- I'm glad you found groovy LP for a buck!


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