Well, there is also the RoHs compatible electronics to contend with, which will most likely fail in time due to whisker growth.

So, digital or analog you are facing the same obsolesce problem in the end.

The good news is that consumer electronics tends to be obsolete in 3 to 7 years by virtue of newer and better product introductions.

Welcome to the disposable society.

The exception being your home made amp....

The exception being your home made amp....

Agreed, and I have still to find something that beats my home made amp played through my Rogers LS7's in sound or reliability.

And I'll bet that was the reason for building the amp in the first place. :)

Hi AP#1,

Sorry, but I greatly prefer digital, not because of sound quality (which, like analog equipment has it's failings depending on the circa it was designed, and the talent who designed it), but because of functionality.

I am typically "the last kid on the block" to buy anything "new" ... proof is, I only bought my first flat-screen TV about a year ago. It's a Samsung 'Smart TV'. OMG (said respectfully), it does everything one can imagine from connecting wirelessly to my home network to a huge selection of inputs ... oh, and you can watch TV, too .

I hadn't thought too much about it until your post, but I remember the 'click-click- click" manual tuners, the snowy pictures, having to occasionally adjust the horizontal and vertical ... then there was color ... sort of ... there were colors, but they were never quite realistic.

No, I can't compare the two except with a nostalgic smile.

Of course there are reasons to prefer analog versus digital ... EM pulses probably won't do much to analog circuits, but frankly if there are any of those, I probably will have other things on my mind than watching TV.

The only bona fide reason I could prefer analog ... specifically vacuum tube ... is that audio components really DO sound better. I know, that could evoke many responses, but there is something to the "speed" of vacuum tubes versus digital electronics that is noticeably better 'sounding' ... AND you can keep the house warm in the winter . No, I don't own any tube amps, but if I could (and had the shelf strong enough to support it) I would cherish a good, vintage McIntosh.

Kind regards ...

warm in the winter . No, I don't own any tube amps, but if I could (and had the shelf strong enough to support it) I would cherish a good, vintage McIntosh.
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