DoubleWoofers
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It almost sounds like you have never heard vinyl?
It certainly has sounded better than digital, especially when there was no digital or later in the infancy of digital.
You must be Holmz from Audiogon?
My vinyl rig by most standards is very good. Unlike most audiophile vinyl rigs though, mine is setup correctly and I know the performance.
Even with the brickwall analog filters of the mid-80s I don't think vinyl has ever sounded better. Audiophiles tell themselves that lie to help sleep at night, but I could take a mid 80's CD mastering rig and put it up against your best vinyl and it will do just fine.
Audiophiles have told themselves the same lies so many times that they can't even conceive of the truth any more. They make declarations about what something sounds like without any knowledge of what their baseline is. What's funny is they now regurgitate those same DACs from the 80's and now they are wonderful. Yes, low end consumer DACs were poor originally, but that is not a format or even a recording limitation. Those, if mastered well, have been beyond vinyl for pretty much as long as the format has existed.
Invariably when vinyl lovers talk about the best records, they wax about pre-1970's stampings ..... that says an awful lot.