The Digital Devil is looking for analog souls and wants to convert them into what I have termed "Digital Couch Potatoes" or "DCPs." The allure to sell your soul to the Digital Devil (DD) is quite strong because analog represents work and commitment to great sound whereas digital just requires a chair and remote app for what many consider "good enough" sound. New victims are being claimed every day and they are forsaking glorious analog sound for the ability to keep their butt planted in their listening chair or couch and control a remote device with an app so they can speed dial through either their hard drive(s) or a subscription service for an all you can stand digital buffet of music. Even the bar for the quality of the digital music the DCPs are willing to sell their soul for appears to becoming lower and lower. In fact, some DCPs have sold their analog soul to the DD for MP3 quality because they swear they can't hear any difference between RBCD quality and MP3s.
However, the DD always has some tricks up his sleeve to tempt more analog souls who have higher standards. The latest temptation is MQA which claims to be more perfect than the original recording. The DD's newest trick appears to be working because he has won over more analog souls and all of the audio forums have page after page of testaments to the quality of MQA and why you should forsake analog.
One of the DD's latest and greatest triumphs has been the conversion of someone we know who has invested vast sums of money in the analog portion of his rig which resides in a converted barn at the foothills of a mountain. Inside the barn is a pair of Studer A820 decks, and a very high quality LP rig and lots and lots of LPs and 2 track 15 ips tapes to keep you immersed in analog sound for the rest of time. The DD has now snatched his analog soul and the barn owner admits that he now spends the majority of his time listening to his digital rig even though he readily admits his analog is still on a higher level than his digital rig.
And so I say to my analog brothers, who is next to sell their soul to the DD? Can any of us be saved from the DD or are we all going to succumb to the temptation of sitting in a comfy chair with a remote app in our hands?
However, the DD always has some tricks up his sleeve to tempt more analog souls who have higher standards. The latest temptation is MQA which claims to be more perfect than the original recording. The DD's newest trick appears to be working because he has won over more analog souls and all of the audio forums have page after page of testaments to the quality of MQA and why you should forsake analog.
One of the DD's latest and greatest triumphs has been the conversion of someone we know who has invested vast sums of money in the analog portion of his rig which resides in a converted barn at the foothills of a mountain. Inside the barn is a pair of Studer A820 decks, and a very high quality LP rig and lots and lots of LPs and 2 track 15 ips tapes to keep you immersed in analog sound for the rest of time. The DD has now snatched his analog soul and the barn owner admits that he now spends the majority of his time listening to his digital rig even though he readily admits his analog is still on a higher level than his digital rig.
And so I say to my analog brothers, who is next to sell their soul to the DD? Can any of us be saved from the DD or are we all going to succumb to the temptation of sitting in a comfy chair with a remote app in our hands?
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