CD Got Absolutely Crushed By Vinyl

This digital versus analog issue is one best compared to believers in a particular religion. The most prevalent religions are Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Music can be analog, digital, or a live performance. Take your pick but be advised that there are very few who renounce their religion in favor of another religion. That pretty  much covers it.

a major problem with cd playback is the fact that the laser light scatters inside the player.. Way back in the late 20th century we bought lenses that fit over the laser to focus the light, but it still bounced around inside. They worked, but...

Fast Forward to the 21st Century: Geoff Kait (Machina Dynamica) new version of laser correction is light years above all previous efforts. As I understand it, NEW Dark Matter absorbs the light bouncing inside the player. Much better than lenses, it is applied directly to the cd tray.

I found installation a bit tricky, however, upon startup, the music is so much more organic. Whereas digital can be light on its musical feet I had to turn my subs way down as there is body and weight in spades, especially down low

Presentation: It’s like the music is anchored in bedrock, with vinyl qualities few cd players can match

The recesses of the sound stage are much easier to hear into, whether it’s backup vocalists, Hammond organ, or large orchestra or chorus. Instruments like piano, upright bass, violin.... sound so much more real and in the room

I recently replaced a toslink cable with a prototype coax (price to be determined, but many times more than New Dark Matter) and my jaw dropped at the level of improvement, meaning other things like cables, and lack of quality isolation (see Machina Dynamica Springs) can screw up digital playback

In my system I would expect to need to get beefy multi-thousand dollar monoblocks to get the benefit I am hearing from NDM

@inna 

Vysotsky's ballads are timeless and are going to be sung and listened to in 500 years and later.  

Ok, so you're not kidding. I can understand it as cultural phenomenon from the past, but not as the music. I can't even stand his voice. Happily my musical background is way different. The only thing i like from the Soviet past is some Soviet Jazz which was like a wind of freedom in the '60s. In my opinion the music should make us happy at least when we're listening to it, it's about the harmony, i want to forget all the troubles in the world when i am listening to music. I want to hear well trained musicians and singers, syncopated rhythms and harmony.    

It is impossible to find anything from my records on tape, so i don't even talk about tapes here. I've heard a potentian of tapes in professional studios played on huge Studer multitrack. 

Vinyl is the best for me, tapes are impossible to find, cd sucks, streaming is for education only (i do not collect files, i collect rvinyl ecords).  

@tweak1

In case your last post isn't a joke...

....I'm glad to see someone so open minded.

I have many items I can sell as well if you are interested.  A ball of special yarn that when placed on your digital source will open up the soundstage, guaranteed!  $300.  Because it's special yarn.


I have some fine beach property near Nashville as well I'm looking to offload.....;)

So this is not about enjoying music for you guys. Listening to music is not like religion. Many people enjoy Lp, Cd, streaming, tape, live, etc. Some of you guys are more like a cult where you cut yourself off from people who are not part of the cult. But as we used to say, it’s a free country, so knock yourselves out.