I can't handle digital after analog light my fire

I use PC playback with Mytek DSD DAC now and vinyl. I enjoy both playbacks and also enjoy my music library put together onto the one HDD with almost all data in lossless formats. Thinking of upgrading to Apple not only for sonic purposes.

yes me too. after one or two songs on CD and I have turn it off and turn my phono preamp on and switch my turntable . i just wouldn't listen to CD , not sure why :)

Peter

Once i got a great tube preamp to use as a 'tube buffer' for my digital i am totally satisfied with my Cd playback.
The CD playback is now as good as LP playback.
IMO the only real problem I ever had with digital was the HF edge.
A cheap buffer did not do the job. But the VAC Stadard I got for the job is great.
LPs and CDs ust sound a little different. Neither is bad or perfect.

Methinks the OP probably has the wrong CD player, and his analog rig is simply better. The days of truly bad CD sound are long gone, unless one pulls out some '80s digital...

Wow, Elizabeth! My experience is very similar to yours.

After 20 years of exclusive digital listening, I bought a turntable in early 2007. I was so captivated by the difference that I listened to *no* digital music on my system for the next 8 months. Over time I made various upgrades to improve the LP playback, culminating in early 2011 with a Jolida JD9 phono stage and a JD5T line stage. That Jolida line stage uses a solid state (opamp) gain stage with tube buffering. At that point digital music still didn't compete.

In the meantime I changed my focus in digital music from CD player to iTunes on a MacBook. All rips are Apple Lossless and stored on a portable USB drive. Once the music was sourced from the external drive the music sounded less dynammic and involving. Even the iPod Classic playing the same files into my stereo sounded better. Then I got Audirvana Plus music playback software, and configuring it to buffer the music files in RAM and upsampling in multiples of two improved things quite a bit compared to upsampling everything to 24/96, which is the Apple default. But computer playback still wasn't in the league with LP.

Then a couple weeks ago an audiobuddy stopped by with a real tube line stage he wanted to sell. It even had a tube rectifier and a massive transformer. Price was right, especially for how good this sounded. It made my buffered linestage sound 2-dimensional and a little sparse. What really sold me, however, was how the computer-based music now sounded. It sounded liquid, organic, dynamic, and very musically involving. So buying that linestage was like giving me back a library of about 450 digital recordings that I'd had no inclination to listen to.

I haven't really played any CDs through the new line stage; my CD player is a 7-year-old Sony SACD/CD changer. But the MacBook-sourced music sounds killer. Plus, Audirvana can play back FLAC files, so I now have a few 24/96 files from HDTracks, and these are fully competitive with LP, though they trade away a little nuance for lower noise floor and a more sparkling (but no longer irritating) presentation.

Here's something else that's cool--Apple offers a remote control for MacBooks for $20. That's probably next on my list. I can leave the computer on the table while I operate it from the sweet spot.