Hi
This is interesting - what do you think Analog does better than Digital and vice versa?
james
I do not think one is better than the other. What I think is some folks have listening PREFERENCES and things within the music which one format can show 'better' than the other.
(In the same way some folks just love tubes, and other have no use for 'tubes' in their system.)
What each of us listen To and FOR within music varies.
I can say I must have perfect treble. I pay a LOT of money for it.
Bass? I could care less.. I have no need for 'perfect' bass. In fact I hate chest thumping bass. So for me average adequate bass is like no problem at all.
I also have no concern about 'soundstage. for my own reasons. nor room speaker interactions. I am just not worried about a perfect response across the audio band.
Some folks totally different notions of what is important.
As for analog vs digital: For me it is pretty much what is easier. CD is WAY WAY easier to use than LP. both for handling and LENGTH of time between messing with.
LP is every 20 to 30 minutes. pulling out the LP, checking how clean. vacuuming. wiping the stylus, setting the arm. flipping the LP.. over and over. To stop have to turn off TT, put on cover..
CD, get five CDS. wipe them off as I insert. Play for five to six hours.. turn off. one button done.
also a comment on another prior post:
When I read someone mentioning the detail of CD as better? LOL Sorry, I can find that amazing detail in LPs too. So IMO that is not a difference.
Though on the cheap end of the equipment range, CD may appear to have more detail than LP.
My LP playback is way more expensive than my CD.
LP Kuzma Stabi/Sogi S with speed box, Dynavector 17D3, and a Audio Research Sp-15 I use just for it's wonderful tubed phono section. So all this is retail $11,000... In reality I got the ARC SP-15 Initially for $1,500, but after several trades, free.), the Kuzma used locally for $2,400, and the cart for $900. LOL
My digital is retail a third of that. And cost me like $1,000 for most of it, then $1,700 for a demo SCD777ES