Well, I was only half serious. I was kind of hoping you'd be able to rip vinyl in a way that it'd not be obvious. Because I can't claim to have ever heard a "really good" turntable setup, and ever time I've listen to one it's been plagued with pops and hiss. I'm sorry, but that totally takes me out of the listening experience.*
If it's obvious that it from a vinyl source, it's obviously less listenable to me. But I'll still give it a chance. But you see the problem, I have a prejudice against vinyl and tape.
You don't happen to have Toad the Wet Sprocket's "Fear" on vinyl, do you? That was an AAD CD (back when they applied those labels), and one of the best sounding in my collection.
Sorry, I don't know anything about XLD at all.
*Like movies that try to be more "realistic" by having water/mud/blood splash on the "camera". That immediately pulls me out of the viewing experience. Because up to that point I was seeing through my "eyes".
