Plato,
We did what we did with what we had. Like I said in my first post, there isn't a lot of high end stuff to listen to in our area. I didn't come across as relating my system as anything special. To the contrary, I termed it modest by Audiogon standards. Excuse me if I'm a little bit offended by regular criticism of the LP12 here. Yeah, there are better turntables to be had but like I've stated many times here in these forums I have no compelling reason to upgrade. I have heard several of the turntables that are regularly touted here as being superior to the Linn and IMHO the life is sucked right out of the music. Each his own.
I've never been on any jihad against digital playback and only recently parted with my last player. I considered it to be excellent. But after almost 10 years and two players I had about 40 CD's as compared to approximately 5,000 lp's. Having the CDP was a waste of precious resources.
The reality of digital playback is that a system has to be maximized for it. Insert analog into such a system and you have compromised the analog investment. And, here I run the risk of even more criticism, I think that with the myriad things one must insert into a system to make the most of CD's, amounts to signal processing. I've found the fewest things in the signal path the better the musicality.
If you re-read my first post I stated "to make a very long story short". The digital system I inserted my turntable into was tweaked to the max as far as I could tell. Multiple very expensive interconnects, power conditioners and isolation devices were used and it's generally agreed that the Audio Aero Capitole is one of the better players on the planet. If any piece wasn't given a fair shake in this experiment it was my LP12 run through the phono section of an early 80's very midfi receiver. The turntable was even placed in a location where it was subjected to low frequency feedback.
I wasn't challenging your experience and stated up front that this was in contrast to yours. Then I get a lame challenge to drive a gazillion miles to do a meaningless shootout.
I stand behind my last statement which probably set you off. A good, well maintained turntable will last a lifetime. The last twenty years has proven that not to be the case with CDP's.
We did what we did with what we had. Like I said in my first post, there isn't a lot of high end stuff to listen to in our area. I didn't come across as relating my system as anything special. To the contrary, I termed it modest by Audiogon standards. Excuse me if I'm a little bit offended by regular criticism of the LP12 here. Yeah, there are better turntables to be had but like I've stated many times here in these forums I have no compelling reason to upgrade. I have heard several of the turntables that are regularly touted here as being superior to the Linn and IMHO the life is sucked right out of the music. Each his own.
I've never been on any jihad against digital playback and only recently parted with my last player. I considered it to be excellent. But after almost 10 years and two players I had about 40 CD's as compared to approximately 5,000 lp's. Having the CDP was a waste of precious resources.
The reality of digital playback is that a system has to be maximized for it. Insert analog into such a system and you have compromised the analog investment. And, here I run the risk of even more criticism, I think that with the myriad things one must insert into a system to make the most of CD's, amounts to signal processing. I've found the fewest things in the signal path the better the musicality.
If you re-read my first post I stated "to make a very long story short". The digital system I inserted my turntable into was tweaked to the max as far as I could tell. Multiple very expensive interconnects, power conditioners and isolation devices were used and it's generally agreed that the Audio Aero Capitole is one of the better players on the planet. If any piece wasn't given a fair shake in this experiment it was my LP12 run through the phono section of an early 80's very midfi receiver. The turntable was even placed in a location where it was subjected to low frequency feedback.
I wasn't challenging your experience and stated up front that this was in contrast to yours. Then I get a lame challenge to drive a gazillion miles to do a meaningless shootout.
I stand behind my last statement which probably set you off. A good, well maintained turntable will last a lifetime. The last twenty years has proven that not to be the case with CDP's.
