Humanity's 10 greatest inventions: the other 9?

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

CDs played through a really good non oversampling DAC turn out to be way better than you’d imagine.

Nah, its much better to have a reference turntable and £30k of cables, amplification and speakers. Because then you can really hear the stylus wear and record surface noise after 25 plays

 

[ferrus]

Nah, its much better to have a reference turntable and £30k of cables, amplification and speakers. Because then you can really hear the stylus wear and record surface noise after 25 plays

An irony is, the better turntable systems get the more they loose that warm euphonic sound and the more they sound like CD
Vice versa too - top quality CD players become more fluid, solid, dynamic and 3 dimensional..