Why do we love vinyl more than digital?
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This is hilarious - before discovering it, I hadn't quite realized the enormity of the threat Fremer must perceive from digital
I don't think he views it as a threat at all. If MF didn't have Analog Corner, he could be reviewing any category of component and doing it as well or better than nearly anyone else out there (IMO). Read the latest Stereophile and he describes how he uses 24/96 digital needledrops to demonstrate the sound of different analog front ends (kind of makes you wonder, if hires digital can record these anaolg front ends so well how bad can it be??). And he preferentially uses hires digital as his personal demo stuff at shows (in addition to some LP's).
That, to me says a lot about the "transparency" of digital if it is able to capture differences between analog gears at the highest level... MF himself claimed that without prior knowledge it would be very difficult (I can't remember the exact wording but the word "impossible" might have been uttered !?!
) to know which is which.Frantz-Is it not unanimous with people who only own PCM or not unanimous with people who own both PCM and DSD and hear them both regularly?
We all have our own different takes. The irony of my reading that comment is that I do have a very clear memory of the first time I downloaded digital from HDTracks, sitting at my small desk with my Microsoft 'ergonomic' keyboard. Not that I download any more as HDTracks sucks too badly for me now. For me digital does have to be something physical as mere bits on a disk are too easily lost so if Fremer's real point was that digital is too ephemeral then sure. But that's totally beside the point of how it sounds.
I will remove myself from those who hears all three formats with regularity. I own a few SACD but my Oppo would not qualify as SOTA DSD decoder. OTOH the Berkely DAC PCM can use that epithet ... but it seems that at least one illustrious analog flag bearer, MF seems to have made his choice differently his digital of choice has been PCM 24/96, I could be wrong or he could change his tune JV-like
That's for sure. I've listened to them for a couple of days and will be soon putting them on A-gon.....
Tell us.... give me a brand/model of SOTA DAC that I can buy that will pass muster with you so I can hear the holy grail....... The two I just got ain't cutting it if that's what NOS is supposed to be cracked up to be.
What DSD converters has Barry Diament had in his system? Or is it just annectodal listening at some show??
Which Studer or SOTA TT does Greg own??
You asked this question before, I gave you a few suggestions. But there's no NOS DAC currently on the market which I consider to approach SOTA because none of them both filter out the image freqs and flatten the FR droop. Best wait until I've finished my Ozone and I'll be sure to arrange it sent to you for a listen.
Good evening, gentlemen. This thread has evolved into what the WBF is not about. Please allow me to remind you all of something.
The OP asked a simple question. 17 pages later? We have not met this goal. So with that said, thread closed. Please note that this is not meant or directed at anybody in particular.
Tom
The OP asked a simple question. 17 pages later? We have not met this goal. So with that said, thread closed. Please note that this is not meant or directed at anybody in particular.
Tom
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