Oddly enough no. Never felt the need to. There is just something "spiritual" about the whole vinyl. It's just a very immersive experience. Selecting a record you haven't listen to in a while , looking at the art work on the cover, removing the dusk sleeve, blow the perceived dust off, turning the turntable on, placing the needle on the actual record and then there is the sound, my god, so smooth, so mellow, so dynamic. Some of my super cut vinyl sounds fabulous. Maybe it's just me but I have done the digital mp3 nas server round the house thing and while ok it just doesn't do it for me. Give my a Lynn deck , amp and a pair of **** off mission floor standers any day

 

Wow, I am wishing I had my old table back now.
Although, that said, I always did hate the fact they were so brittle, thats something digital did rectify.


The problem in that statement is "MP3" always has and always will sound rubbish, the compression losess all the depth of the music when compared with a 16bit 48khz CD.

I am sure anyone with a home cinema will agree that DTS HD on Blueray sounds incredibly better than say, normal 5.1 on a DVD. And they are right, as its virtually uncompressed.

Well 24bit / 96khz FLAC pumped straight from your NAS to your amp is a similar upgrade from CD.

 

My AC Ryan media box will play FLAC 1.7. It is connected to my amp via digital. Where can I download some 24/96 music from?

 

Here is a good start, but they are available elsewhere of course.