10-Dec-2017, 11:36
Let’s not compare digital to analog....let’s compare them both to live music, which after all is the goal. Analog sounds more like music than digital and that’s why people prefer it. As an audiophile I’ve spent my life trying to build the most accurate and transparent system that reproduces the music with no sonic signature of its own. Digital may be ‘cleaner’ than analog but in a clinical, unpleasant way. There’s nothing clinical about live music....its rich and natural....analog-like. Interestingly, the higher up the resolution scale we move in digital the less clinical and more musical and natural it sounds. Devialet has reached the point that it can exploit the benefits of digital without the clinical downsides. General consumer digital has yet to get anywhere near that standard, hence people still prefer the old analog sound.
