HiFi Subjectivist ¦ Audio Forum ¦ NVA User Group

To be honest I don't think it's actually the fact that it's on vinyl that matters, it's whether it's analogue or digital. A lot of newly released vinyl sounds pretty shite too, pretty much like the CD, because everything that happened up to pressing the record was digital I guess. I suspect that top quality analogue tape would sound equally nice to my ears. I remember, at one of the hi-fi shows, a room where they had two sets of masters running, one digital, one analogue. Now I have to admit that both were pretty stunning, but the analogue version still had that certain "something" about it.

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The Oppo is only the latest CD spinner, which is now for sale. I've lost count of how many CD players I've gotten through over the years, including players/dacs from Theta, Bow, Audio Analogue, Tube Technology, Musical fidelity, Meridian, Densen, Perpetual Technology..........the list goes on, and on, and. . . .

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No, I think you've maybe picked up the wrong end of the stick here. I never thought CD replay was awful, far from it with the best players I had, (the Tube Tech Fusion being the best). It's mainly that, for me, my PT hits the spot "slightly" better and as I don't get to really sit and have a good listen very often, (hi-fi in the lounge with a household of 5 adults!), when I do it's the PT that gets used.

OK, thanks