When is digital going to get the soul of music?

I wish someone on the Audiogon staff would explain why the editing feature appears on some threads and not on others. Damn, it's frustrating.

I wrote:

Actually, it's generally accepted practice to divulge one's affiliation with a manufacturer...

I wanted to edit this statement. I realize Mmakshak's just an Oritek customer, albeit one who personally knows and has visited the owner. I wanted to be clear on my meaning of "affiliation" as it applies in this instance.

Well the best argument I can think of is the fact that analog is still around. It's inconvenient, you need more components. You have to search hard for records without scratches, there's too much to go into just to get things right. CD you pop them in.

So, if digital could match it, there wouldn't be any TT's except for maybe the stuborn die hards. I hope that one day it can, so that I can stop buying record cleaner and stop replacing my cartridges.

I haven't read this whole thread, so forgive me if this has already been said...but I believe the soul of the music is in the performance, not in the playback format...even listening to an old Robert Johnson recording on AM radio sounds soulful to me... ;-)

Yes. Philnyc. I listen to his recording in my car and agree that Robert Johnson has the soul thing down no matter what you listen to him on.

It turns out that Aplhifi lives less than one mile from me, and I will be bringing over the Oritek X-1's and X-2's for an audition on Saturday.