michaelab
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I completely agree Jules 
Michael.

Michael.
Yes - that would show a big difference, it's the 24bits thats doing itOriginally posted by The Devil
Sorry Michael and everyone else, what we compared was in fact 96kHz/24 bit with 44.1kHz/16 bit.
Sorry, Ian, you are only the second-least tweaky person you know, after me. I don't tweak at all, ever.
i'm perfectly willing to believe that you find vinyl more enjoyable than cd. as long as you respect my position that i find the two to be different but neither inherantly better.
I thought that you, lee and i should get together for a beer.
Absolutely right, and also mirrors my experiences too.Originally posted by joongul
I also forget about the TT setup once done and just listen to the music. OK to faithfully follow the maintenance schedule I clean the belt every 6 months, change the oil every year and belt every 2 years. I hope that the cartridge would be good for 3 years. A bit more work than CDPs but hardly a constant tweakery I'd think.
Originally posted by julian2002
is a debut 2 better sounding that a cds2 or wadia 860? no? then analog is NOT always better than digital. julian
your thought experiment is loaded Digitalians have fallen into the trap of the vinylistas of assuming that their ultimate goal should be to get a CDP to sound like a TT and hence you get all this BS about "much more analogue sounding".
the words analog and digital used in this context are only useful as a point of reference to what the speaker has heard in the past not as an objective (or even subjective) quantity of better or worse to another person.
The thing is, I don't thing CD needs defending. It's vinyl lovers who seem to think that vinyl requires defending in the light of CD and new formats, not the other way around.Originally posted by sideshowbob
I'd be interested to read such a defence.