Flat/round/square/cuboid earth

I don't really know where it came from either but I have a friend whose system is definitely 3 dimensional. Horns popping out here and voices over there and pieces of sound popping up throughout the room. However, Naim gear seems to present it flatter, as a cohesive whole, with more depth to the soundstage the higher up the order you go. I like it very much, not sure what my friend thinks of it as he's only heard it twice briefly. Another friend thinks what I have is really great, he's over on a regular basis for a listen and a chat. We tried the A/B comparison of vinyl and CD on Paul Simon's Rhymn' Simon that I have two of and found it hard to judge the difference due to the different sound levels between TT and CDP.

Interesting that you're a student of Audio Tech in your profile. I bet that is interesting. What are the labs like?

Life is analogue

I think it comes from the idea, prevalent around 1983, that anyone whose preference was for vinyl rather than CD - or who understood the importance of source components in determining the quality of many systems - was as delusional and antedeluvian in their thinking as a latterday believer in the theory that the Earth is flat.

I vaguely seem to remember an advert in the mid eighties mag Hi-Fi Review that featured a cartoon depicting hi-fi dealers laughing at a customer for their ignorance of things flat Earth. [I'm not going to try to find it at this time of night, otherwise I'll probably spend the next few hours reading my remaining copies of HFR].