When is digital going to get the soul of music?

Serus (Ori), I really hoped you can make it over tomorrow at 3PM. At this point I hope your customer Mmakshak makes it over. Since he has visited you in the past, I am sure he can give you a nice report. Please feel free to contact me at any time and schedule e visit.

I've heard about your cables. People say they are amazing. I hope Mmakshak will bring your latest tomorrow for A-B test against my ICs.

The reason I wanted you to stop by tomorrow is because I still have the re-engineered Esoteric UX-1 Universal Player. This one was supposed to be my own, but the first one I built got stolen in a DHL warehouse in Belgium (another DHL horror story), so I will need to send this one to Europe early next week. I will sure have another one, but I don't really know when. :-(....It really deserves to be heard as it does not have any signs of “Digital”.

Regards,
Alex

C5150, may I buy another round?

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Robm321, I would agree with you to the extent that the IMPLEMENTATION of Digital is clearly inferior to vinyl. Please believe me when I say that, if you need 5 things to make vinyl sounds best, you need at least 50 to make Digital sound best.

A really nice guy and also owner of $100K SOTA vinyl setup visited me at the CES show. I played 88.2KHz/24bit DVD-A for him which I have personally recorded from a $25K vinyl setup. Although the 25K vinyl can not compare with 100K vinyl, the above mentioned gentleman agreed that it was just like the actual vinyl was playing - no sign of digital. We have also A-B-ed this recording with the actual 25K vinyl setup it was recorded from. There is no difference one can hear.

I will soon visit the nice gentleman with the 100K vinyl setup and will record 96KHz/24bit DVD-A out of it. There will not be any difference on A-B test, I guarantee it. Bottom line is that whatever vinyl carries as information can be captured and reproduced with Digital without any negative artifact to the ear. Digital offers the resolution and sound quality of vinyl; it’s just that it takes a lot more with it to get it right.

Regards,
Alex

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TVAD and C5150, Next round's on me!