Quote Originally Posted by tube fan
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I repeat: NO salesman at the California Audio Show contested my claim that today's analogue simply DESTROYS today's digital (yes, even in the Audio Note room which had only the inferior digital). REG has been praising digital for decades, and I suspect you have been on board with him.
This is so-call "confirmation bias". You have decided analog & tubes sound best, so you selectively hear the best qualities of these media and equpment. "A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest", to quote the song.

These shows attract people like yourself and accordingly, makers and their salesmen who will cater to your tastes and reasure your biases. In many cases they share your biases but even if they don't they will stroke them in the hope that you'll buy or recommend their stuff.

Perhaps I'm being just a bit unfair, though. You are looking for the sound you prefer and there is nothing wrong with that. The bad part is that you refuse to concede the matter of taste and continue to insist your preferences are the necessarily more realistic, authentic sound.