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Is Digital actually better than Analog?

I just purchased an Esoteric DV-50s. The unit is fantastic in the sense that you can hear every detail very clearly in most recordings. Here is the thing, does it make for an enjoyable musical expereince? With this type of equipment, you can actually tell who can actually sing and who can really play. Some artist who I have really enjoyed in the past come across as, how shall I put it, not as talented. This causes almost a loss of enjoyment in the music.
Which comes to my Vinyl curiousity. I dont own a single record, but I have been curious why so many have kept the LP's (and tubes for that matter) alive for so long after the digital revolution and now I am thinking it is probably has to do with LP's being more laid back and maybe even more musical. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Would someone recommend going back to Analog. I was thinking of getting a entry level player like a Scout Master.
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nsgarch
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Queg -- maybe I'm missing something here, but I was under the impression that you took the lack of response to your recent job application as a supreme compliment, or at the very least, complete stupidity as to your qualifications.

Were you really disappointed?
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queg
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D edwards: I wasn't interviewing to be a tech or engineer. They needed an experience operations guru to help streamline their project management and workflow process. I wouldn't have been speaking with them if I wasn't sufficiently qualified. Frankly, it wasn't a good fit. I didn't show enough enthusiasm because I didn't have enuough enthusiasm.

On topic:
High quality 2 channel (which, like Ozzy, I suspect you've never actually heard) has a subtle but exceptional emotional quality that (for me) became discernable only after many, many hours of alone time (rather then show off time) in my listening chair.

Like taste in music, it's a personal thing. I don't proselytize, or try to make others hear what I'm hearing and "convert" them.
d_edwards
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Ozzy62

Why does everyone assume;

1. That my system is mediocre?, when you never heard it or anything like it?

2. That pictured is my only system?

3. Do you really think closeout Kevlar mids and Vifa poly woofs are "high quality"?

How about some of the best you can buy?

Is my ATC Anniversary 50's, ATC SCA2, Lake Contour, ATC Concept 4 subwoofer good enough to qualify as quality?

You'll note the comments in my system thread mentioning the once pictured Anniversary 50's when it was connected to Meridian surround gear

I designed the speaker system in my profile and it works exactly like its supposed too. And I'd rather show that system than some some system that anyone could buy ;).

you understand.
pawlowski6132
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D Edwards, nowhere do you talk about the QUALITY of the sound coming from your system. Only the effect of our surround setup. You brag about your system being so great. I'll bet my system matches yours on a couple of other "measurements": accurate timbres, harmonic structure reproduction (especially in acoustic intruments and vocals), non-fatiguing.
tvad
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