However, for those of us who have multiple sources in our system because we want to be able to listen vinyl and digital or vinyl, tape and digital, I don’t recall a single person saying they prefer the sound of digital over analog. But that’s another story…
Of course not. No one would make the investment in cash and maintenance that analog requires unless they preferred it.
Tim on the other hand has postulated that if more information is coming through from vinyl, it’s not that we are actually retrieving more from the groove than we have been able to previously, it’s all because of the better tables, arms, and cartridges are lowering the distortion levels. I think that Tim clearly stated that we aren’t getting any new information from the grooves and that is what I and others here are disagreeing with.
Given that the end result is exactly the same, we'll never know who's right and we're all just "postulating."
Tim