Sorry, but well designed analog equipment will blow the doors off of digital stuff.
No contest.
As an EE with doctorate in DSP who has taught this stuff at the grad level for years, dats the twuth.
Yes, I use digital for my iprimary source, because I am lazy.
But, when I sit and relax for great music,it’s analogue.
Oh, am also a not bad pianist that knows classical and rock. Been there, got the T shirt in both.
Forgot to add that Apple includes a plug adapter that allows one to use their present phones. Swetteth not.
Gotta agree, my problem is that most of the source material I hear today is so badly recorded that many people have no clue as to what “real” instruments actually sound like anymore.
That was one of the things I liked about the “good old days”.
Damn, I am old.
And I will agree with you. But no one is going to carry "well designed analog equipment that will blow the doors off of digital stuff" around with them in a phone, or while they are jogging, or riding the bus, or on a plane. It just ain't gonna happen. So you try to maximize the digital source and playback as best as you can.
If you can afford it, a tube driven amplifier system with a great analog music source is wonderful. But I can't quite figure out how to carry one around with me. The batteries are coming down in weight, but the tube heat is a bitch, but the real problem is the turntable. . . perhaps a 7 ¼" reel to reel tape would do the trick?
However, at 67, carrying around that weight on a backpack is getting beyond me. I'm gonna have to hire a Sherpa or three.
I've also been a pro musician. . . long ago in college. Later in life I was Bass section lead for the Stockton Chorale for around 10 years. We were the invited group to perform with the Manhattan Philharmonic Orchestra for the 100th Anniversary Concert of Carnegie Hall. Our founding conductor, Dr. Art Holton, was brought out of retirement to conduct both the Philharmonic and the the Chorale in Arthur Honegger's "King David". Sold Out New York crowd with the Governor or NY and the Vice President sitting two boxes away from my now ex-wife. We got four standing ovations! It was exciting.
When we got to New York and got off the busses from the Air Port in front of Carnegie Hall, Art Holton was stunned to see his photo hanging three stories tall off of Carnegie Hall! They gave him Toscanini's dressing room. Art had a huge talent but a bigger inferiority complex. He could have been a big frog in a big pond, and instead settled for being a big frog in a small pond as founder of the Stockton Chorale (which he directed for 50 years) and Stockton Symphony.
The Stockton Chorale was Carmen Dragon's favorite large choral group for which he arranged many of his more famous choral pieces including "God Bless America," and "Down By The Riverside". . . we performed many times with his Glendale Symphony.
So, somewhere, around here, I got the T-shirt too. . . but it's gotten a bit moth eaten over the years. I had to give up the Chorale. I've got a very bad back and after three seasons of rehearsing for the concerts and then finding I could not stand through the concert itself to sing, I finally resigned. I've been on the Board of Directors and an office of the board at various times, but I've pulled back completely an am now just a listener who sits in the audience and enjoys the sound of a truly large choral group.
We took 213 singers to Carnegie Hall for that anniversary concert in 1991 at the invitation of Carter Nice, the conductor of the Manhattan Philharmonic, who had heard the "King David" we had done as Art's retirement concert from the previous spring and wanted it for the Hall's 100th Anniversary Concert.