i agree with Mark. no; it's not PC.....but there is no question he is correct.
screw propriety, let'r rip Tim.
in the opening post Mark asked those who don't have the proper tools at hand for vinyl and tape listening to bow out. that's not PC either. he wanted to hear from listeners with those choices to weigh in on their pecking order.
Bruce knew where this would go. me too and so i did not comment.
and what do you know here we are, on the 2nd page.
well?
Then I will have to bow out of this discussion after this post, Steve Williams may have to bow out too since he has R2R but no vinyl . I will no longer use any analog in any system I am likely to have. I have found myself satisfied with digital getting better and better and no longer see the need for any analog format.
What I find interesting is that preferences are invoked whenever necessary. Else the choices and preferences are posted as absolute. It becomes more curious when one consider preferences versus accuracy. I have read here and elsewhere that some people preferR2R from the direct feed. This direct feed is what the tape records. Recording invokes a transformation which according to every laws of physics must have some faults.. IOW the copy must be inferior to the original; yet, (some) people prefer the copy ... So this pecking order is one of preferences with no necessary regard to accuracy. A concept which audiophiles have the greatest difficulty separating from their preferences or what is to their ears euphonic.
Out of the discussion .. mep pecking order is ok with ,me and would have been mine a few years ago ... Not anymore ...