as good as a $2500 or even $10,000 digital rig sounds, it doesn't sound nearly as nice a $2500 LP rig. Dollar for dollar LP sounds better from about $250 and up and at some point lP just pulls away forver from what even the worlds finest CD rigs can do at any cost.
-- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph McAllister Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 3:55 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital On Nov 13, 2009, at 09:41 , J.C. O'Connell wrote: > ok, I'LL REPHRASE IT, The benefits of digital CD are worthless if it > does sound SATISFACTORY! On a top of the line, state of the art audio system, played through a $2500 or better D to A converter, good CDs ripped into iTunes on my Mac (or PC) using Apple's lossless compression (same as the CD, basically), digitally sourced music sounds very sweet. Probably because it is pumped through a conga line of vacuum tubes to get to the speakers, which themselves are another analog stage to pass through. But vinyl sounds warmer, with better staging, and more air, ultimately. Joseph McAllister [email protected] " It is still true, as was first said many years ago, that people are the only sophisticated computing devices that can be made at low cost by unskilled workers!" - Martin G. Wolf, PhD -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
