A Couple Of Articles For Digital Listeners

I AM right, darn it!!
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  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).

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Good digital sounds so good to me that I never have to look back at vinyl and wonder which sounds best.  The convenience factor of high end digital totally slams the door on the whole vinyl argument for me.  They both sound great in my system, but I play digital 98% of the time.

That being said, I will never give up my vinyl rig and 3,000 LP's.
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May I just add the SACDs and SHM- CDs I buy direct from CD Japan are nothing short of amazing. Best sounding recordings I have ever heard on my system. I wish more of my favorite artists were available on these formats. They have been expanding their classic rock inventory as of late. I will say that there is nothing sexier looking equipment wise than a beautiful turntable. Pure old school.