Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it.

Many of us vinyl spinners have been in the hi fi hobby for many years and had large album collections before the silver disc.Most have tried digital and many converted but many just run both formats and try to buy premium vinyl and use digital to warm up the system and play in the car.It looks in the near future that hi resolution downloading will be the next step in the digital chain and although I havent taken the plunge I have been researching a lynx sound card in a silent Pc.The fact that you can sample a track or two before buying and do it all from home with no waiting makes this perhaps a viable alternative.I see this as complementing my current system not replacing it.For me vinyl will never die, its way too much fun and the cds spend more time in the car anyway, a place where for sure they do a better job than an lp.

The fact that many of us make time to listen to vinyl, there must be some merit to it. I love my telarc discs, something about the bass I just don't get with vinyl. But of my three versions of Kind of blue, the classic records vinyl is best by a wide margin.. I've a/b'd for friends and everyone agrees, without exception, that the vinyl kills the sacd version. I use a Sony modded by Matt Anker (sacd mods). I am sure if I invested more in my digital rig I could get better sound. I am also sure that there will be a day when a digital format will be available that rivals or surpasses vinyl in every way. When that format is available at a reasonable price, count me in! By then I am sure I will be too old to be running to my tt every 15 minutes, adjusting cartridges etc!

Eldartford, no doubt you are correct and, for you, if the mono microphone comparisons on the origial Stereophile Test CD can make the voice of J. Gordon Holt sound like Julian Hirsh, the late editor of Stereo Review Magazine, they must certainly be more colored than anything else on the planet.

However, for me, these colorations are consonant with the fabric of the music and, if you listen to the jitter distortion comparisons with the harmonic distortion comparisons on Stereophile Test CD3 you may agree that some people find aharonically related distortions in small amounts much more damaging than harmonically related ones. Though they probably won't make me confuse JG with Julian as I have the advantage of having known him. And a good egg he was!

Viridian...Holt or Hirsh. What I remember is the astonishing differences between mics, all of which are well regarded models.

depends on who's asking.
its one of those things that if you have to ask----then its not worth it.
i know allot of guys who played in bands that couldn't care less about all this,they are happy as all get out with ipod.
i even have an old pal who has played behind some pretty big names and is now a sound engineer he thinks my pursuit of HI FI is nonsense and too expensive.
he tells me how digital is wonderful and in what it lacks in the natural sound stage it makes up for with sub sonic lows and dog whistle highs.
who cares i for agreement.
i cant get enough records.