When is digital going to get the soul of music?

Learsfool, lets just say that *you* prefer the distortion created by Lps. I have read in the audiophile press many articles and interviews by people with well trained ears who find listening to digital to be as enjoyable as listening to vinyl. Your personal tastes are absolutely valid but you are speaking for a small minority of a small minority.

In addition, there are many albums that just about everyone agrees sound better in digital than on Lp.

Many people don't have the cash or the time to put together and maintain a sophisticated analog rig that trumps digital at every turn. These people love music and the enjoyment they get from digital is valid too.

The high-end would be dead without digital. The numbers don't lie. We need to attract more people to our passion, not push them away.

Muralmanl - I'm not saying that oversampling is better. It's just a matter of taste. Class D like Icepower modulator is pretty much sigma-delta as much as I can understand Karsten Nielsen doctorate work.

If it ain't real, it's distorted.

Choose your poison.....

...and don't introduce too much noise along the way.....

" If it ain't real, it's distorted" - really? I didn't know that. Are you serious?

Yes, absolutely.

Assuming the sound produced during playback is not exactly the same as what was played live (ie never 100% perfect).

The original signal was transformed to some extent during recording and playback. What happened to account for the difference? Was the original sound not distorted to some extent?