Opinions from all on this one, pro analog and pro digital, and all on the fence
My new room set up, and it's a sheer delight, neutral and a tad damped, but a real microscope for my gear as never before
I'm a died in the wool vinylphile, collecting 2k lps since the late 70s, and on balance prefer Lp listening to digital, w the heft, energy, tone and tonal discrimination on Lp impossible to replicate on digital
BUT I completely love what top end digital is great at as well, ie consistency, transparency, noise flr etc
And in my two decades of upgrading, there have been a handful of occasions where I preferred listening to CDs over lps
And now w the scrutiny of my new room, my tt rig just struggling a little to match the ease of my cdp
And in the last 6 months, for the first time I've heard digital that has come of age and matched the promise the marketeers made back in 1983, w the SGM server sounding majestic upscaling Tidal to 512 via HQP
So preamble over, now the point of this thread
I may very well consider a major tt/arm upgrade to give me the transparency and delicacy my current analog is marginally missing
But the same budget will afford me the SGM w a top dac
I'm very much on the fence, but for the first time in my upgrading history am considering putting digital ahead of vinyl
And then going a radical step further, actively avoiding all vinyl listening for 2-3 years, immersing myself in top end digital, and then returning to Lp listening at a later date
I am really really tempted to do this, am curious to see if total immersion to digital will finally convince me it's the path I really want to go down
Of course I had total analog immersion for my whole life up until 1990 when I bought my first cd
My new room set up, and it's a sheer delight, neutral and a tad damped, but a real microscope for my gear as never before
I'm a died in the wool vinylphile, collecting 2k lps since the late 70s, and on balance prefer Lp listening to digital, w the heft, energy, tone and tonal discrimination on Lp impossible to replicate on digital
BUT I completely love what top end digital is great at as well, ie consistency, transparency, noise flr etc
And in my two decades of upgrading, there have been a handful of occasions where I preferred listening to CDs over lps
And now w the scrutiny of my new room, my tt rig just struggling a little to match the ease of my cdp
And in the last 6 months, for the first time I've heard digital that has come of age and matched the promise the marketeers made back in 1983, w the SGM server sounding majestic upscaling Tidal to 512 via HQP
So preamble over, now the point of this thread
I may very well consider a major tt/arm upgrade to give me the transparency and delicacy my current analog is marginally missing
But the same budget will afford me the SGM w a top dac
I'm very much on the fence, but for the first time in my upgrading history am considering putting digital ahead of vinyl
And then going a radical step further, actively avoiding all vinyl listening for 2-3 years, immersing myself in top end digital, and then returning to Lp listening at a later date
I am really really tempted to do this, am curious to see if total immersion to digital will finally convince me it's the path I really want to go down
Of course I had total analog immersion for my whole life up until 1990 when I bought my first cd