Analog vs digital?

I own over 6-7K LPs

Raul, that's impressive! And a lot of storage room! How do you catalog them? With less than 1000 CDs I find remembering what I have and organizing them to be a pain.

I went to the dark side (digital) 20 years ago, and it definitely has improved greatly. I have a dear friend, my audiophile mentor, who is still a devout vinyl guy and we go round and round about it. His system ($50K, Vandersteen Quatro CTs, Ayre amp, AR Ref preamp, good table) sounds great, but it also would with a really good CD player (e.g., Audio Note, Bryston, Ayon, Esoteric) and a great DAC (like Schiit, Berkeley, Benchmark etc).

I’m sure there are more like me who have some A.D.D. or just aren’t inclined to be the fiddlers that vinyl requires. I want to just listen to music rather than clean records, adjust turntables, grit my teeth at pops and crackles on records, and constantly get out of the chair to restart a song or record when I’ve daydreamed or just want to listen to a song or record 2-4 times in a row (I do that often). I’ve made my peace with the subjective "inferiority" of the sound of digital. In a perfect world, and if I was a fiddler, I would have both but can’t afford it.

My system is much more modest and it still makes me very happy (new Vandersteen 2CE Signature IIIs, Audio Alchemy DDP-1 DAC/preamp, Rega CD player... searching for the right streamer now).

And now, I’m into streaming Tidal and am in heaven. I go down the rabbit hole for hours discovering new music and don’t have to leave the chair if I don’t want to.

Horses for courses!

You have been in audio long enough to know that what you are doing here is to try to start an argument.

A bit harsh, imo. It’s his first post, and it wasn’t strident or trolling. Maybe the topic has been beaten like a rented mule, but that’s not unusual.

"I'd like to have an argument, please."  https://youtu.be/ohDB5gbtaEQ

nzastro  - I'd LOVE to move to NZ and help you get sorted out! It's getting too crazy here in America. Sadly, I don't have enough money. Woe is me.