[loloquwowndueo]

Nah. A true audiophile would be analog only - no room for anything digital, smart or connected. “Wifi EM interferes with the sound”

[intrikate]

If only; you can definitely get "audiophile network switches" which provide a cleaner sound when you pull your music from Roon over them, or something.

Audiophiles are the easiest marks on earth, man.

[mghackerlady]

No, I don't know any audiophiles who think analog is superior. Digital is objectively better sounding

[bluGill]

Maybe not anymore, but that used to be a thing. I suspect some are still left, but I stay away from the places where audiophiles hang out.

[voakbasda]

It’s still a thing, but it is no longer based in objective reality.

[mghackerlady]

I can understand thinking analog sounds nicer or more nostalgic, but it is strictly worse than digital

[bluGill]

That is false for reasons that have nothing to do with analog vs digital.

Analog doesn't allow all the tricks the loudness wars required to win, so often analog really was better than digital. That is garbage in garbage out, and analog got less garbage on the input side. When someone who cares about good music in a perfect listening environment mixes and masters everything to the best of the technology, then digital is better. (but note that perfect listening environment is rare in the real world so good experts are compromising anyway to try to correct for the bad environment people listen in, this can be done well or bad)

[mghackerlady]

I feel like mastering shouldn't be a factor in this, because yeah some CDs where obviously terribly done to sound louder but that isn't a quality of the format itself