Lies about vinyl vs digital

[Soothsayerman]

Once I purchased a California Audio Labs CL-25 cd/dvd  player as suggested by Kal Rubinson, I left vinyl because I finally found something that bridged the digital - analog gap.  I had the unit refurbished not that long ago and it still is kicking, a great player. I much later got a Wadia 381 and at that point recorded a lot of my LP's and got rid of them.  I had also arrived at a point where I really had to start paying attention to what was a good recording or a bad recording. Vinyl is beautiful, but to say that you cannot get better digital at this point is just untrue and with the right setup, digital has matched vinyls organic sound for quite a while now.  My .02 cents.

[Soothsayerman]

21 minutes ago, fas42 said:

In the home of a gent who had close to a SOTA vinyl in the 80's, there was also a CAL CDP. Yes, very easy on the ears, but far too information went missing; I note in a review of the much later CL-10 again this lack of resolution was mentioned, which starts to imply it was the house sound for the brand - the big trick is to combine both retrieval of detail and "organic character", not the easiest combo to make happen.

 

I agree. I'm not sure how the cl-10 compares to the cl-25.  I really wish those guys were still around, anyway, very low level detail is a little recessed but the dynamics and the overall character is wonderful, but I eventually wanted something more resolving and got the Wadia.   I'm thinking about selling both and trying out the Audio Note CD2.1 but I'm not sure it's worth the hassel.  I don't think I can do better for around 2-3k.  It's a good time to be an audiophile for sure though!