I have to ask this(actually, I thought I mentioned this in another thread.). It's been at least 25 years of digital. The equivalent in vinyl is 1975. I am currently listening to a pre-1975 album. It conveys the soul of music. Although digital may be more detailed, and even gives more detail than analog does(in a way), when will it convey the soul of music. This has escaped digital, as far as I can tell.
I want to point out that if it weren't for digital, many advancements in audio would have taken much longer to arrive at, or may not have arrived at all. I'm thinking of power line distortion, power cords(?), line-stages of preamps, speakers, etc.
Had to revisit this classic thread to announce that it has happened.
I've done some tweaks to my system since last visiting this thread which succeeded in getting me thinking and I believe my system has now achieved the lofty goal lamented in the subject of this thread.
I my case, it took adding tube DAC and switching to an ARC tube pre-amp to do it but I think my digital now got "soul".
Or at least the music that plays on it that should have soul seems to have it spades now.
What other spiritual traits should I be checking my digital for now?
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