I want to thank the OP for those excellent articles.
I just sold my analog rig-Clearaudio Concept tt with Concept mc and a Musical Surroundings Phono Pre Amp--and used the $ to help me substantially upgrade my DAC, to the Mytek Manhatten. I am ecstatic.
My thousands of redbook CDs never sounded so great and my computer files as well.
When CDs came out I thought they were a Godsend. No more pops, clicks, wow and flutter, speed instability, brand new lps that looked like Ruffles Potato Chips thye first time removed from the album sleeve, and on it goes...Around 2000 I had a midlife crisis and I was missing the days of plowing through record store lp bins, and the relentless audio press propaganda for vinyl was heating up, so I bought the Project Starter table of the day, and I progressively upgraded until I hit the aforementioned Concept. Vinyl was always a secondary source for, a change of pace, after digital.
Without spending more time on the vinyl vs digital thing, I decided that
it just wasn't worth it, and that digital has come so far as evidenced by breathtaking gear such as the Mytek , that the current fashion for vinyl notwithstanding, I have learned my lesson and will be quite happily residing in digital heaven for the rest of my days on earth (Where I go after that is another story).
I just sold my analog rig-Clearaudio Concept tt with Concept mc and a Musical Surroundings Phono Pre Amp--and used the $ to help me substantially upgrade my DAC, to the Mytek Manhatten. I am ecstatic.
My thousands of redbook CDs never sounded so great and my computer files as well.
When CDs came out I thought they were a Godsend. No more pops, clicks, wow and flutter, speed instability, brand new lps that looked like Ruffles Potato Chips thye first time removed from the album sleeve, and on it goes...Around 2000 I had a midlife crisis and I was missing the days of plowing through record store lp bins, and the relentless audio press propaganda for vinyl was heating up, so I bought the Project Starter table of the day, and I progressively upgraded until I hit the aforementioned Concept. Vinyl was always a secondary source for, a change of pace, after digital.
Without spending more time on the vinyl vs digital thing, I decided that
it just wasn't worth it, and that digital has come so far as evidenced by breathtaking gear such as the Mytek , that the current fashion for vinyl notwithstanding, I have learned my lesson and will be quite happily residing in digital heaven for the rest of my days on earth (Where I go after that is another story).