What did I start?

[thughes]

Secondly, my wife is in the basement ordering vinyl! She spent about an hour listening today and prefers it to a CD.

There is a whole new addiction here. Proceed with caution. I decided to dip my toes back into vinyl and bought a Clearaudio Emotion from Jeff at AV Solutions here on the forum.

I've found I don't mind messing with the cleaning and handling. In fact, it brings a kind of pleasure to take out the black disk with the label from decades long ago.

Before I sold my MC275, my wife and I did some comparisons. The first conclusion is easy. There is a great deal of difference in recording quality among all the mediums we compared - vinyl, CD, and SACD. A bad LP is bad as is a bad CD, and some SACD started with poor quality masters.

All other things being equal though, our preference is 1. SACD 2. Vinyl 3. CD.

Now, I find myself torn between buying the CD or the vinyl so what happens? I buy both.

Proceed with caution down this road.

[two dot]

Indeed.... it is a slippery slope....

[gregswaim]

Originally Posted by thughes

There is a whole new addiction here. Proceed with caution. I decided to dip my toes back into vinyl and bought a Clearaudio Emotion from Jeff at AV Solutions here on the forum.

I've found I don't mind messing with the cleaning and handling. In fact, it brings a kind of pleasure to take out the black disk with the label from decades long ago.

Before I sold my MC275, my wife and I did some comparisons. The first conclusion is easy. There is a great deal of difference in recording quality among all the mediums we compared - vinyl, CD, and SACD. A bad LP is bad as is a bad CD, and some SACD started with poor quality masters.

All other things being equal though, our preference is 1. SACD 2. Vinyl 3. CD.

Now, I find myself torn between buying the CD or the vinyl so what happens? I buy both.

Proceed with caution down this road.

Sounds like you need a digital playback setup and a separate vinyl playback setup. I have both and I love what each has to offer.