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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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zeal
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Sorry, didn't mean to get carried away. I find analog to be more organic and rich. Digital gets rather analytical. Sure it has more detail but less warmth. I was born in the 50's , so I have been listening to analog longer then digital. And i still listen to analog more. Didn't buy a CD player untill the mid 90's. Always had a turn table.
pauly
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I am somewhat perturbed as to why folks such Edwards and Wallace continue posting on the analogue forum.

Obviously they really like their own opinions (that is quite evident) and I don’t think there is anything wrong with liking your own opinion. But surely they cannot be so naive to think that others on this forum place quite the same value on their opinions as they do?
nrostov
199 posts
 
Here, Here, Pauly. You summed up how I have been feeling for months! Good Job!!!!!

Justin
tvad
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11-08-06: Pauly
I am somewhat perturbed as to why folks such Edwards and Wallace continue posting on the analogue forum.

Interesting. I personally pay zero attention to which forum I'm reading. I wouldn't have known this was an Analog Forum topic had you not mentioned it.
guidocorona
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Organic? Does that mean that analog recordings are supposed to be bio-degradable?

3D optical storage = surround sound? Not really. . . it only means that by storing data in 3 dimensions we may in principle achieve higher data density. . . how the higher data density is used remains undefined by the storage medium.

Monna Lisa painted by Picasso? What a fanciful notion. . . last I checked the author was one Leonardo Da Vinci, who lived in Italy some several centuries before Pablo Picasso was even born in Spain.

In general, the proposition that "digital is better than analog" or viceversa remains undecidable.
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