Here's a fire starter: Analog is as good as SACD

What I am getting at is have I hit a plateau with my analog front end; or my system as a whole.
I agree analog and digital are tow different animals. I should have said equal; not the same. Those of you who have SACD, DVD-A, etc and analog; which do you think excels?

Also that should read DOES IT MAke sense...
I don't know why I lose characters here.

LPs and silver discs are different media with unique virtues specific to each.  A very interesting thing to listen to are Stockfish DMM-SACDs where they find a happy medium between the media.😉

It depends on which format you want to listen to more. I can’t comment on your turntable setup but I know you can do a lot better than the oppo on the digital side for reasonable money.

Also, oppo players starting with the 103 and 105 models can stream Tidal and probably internet radio, giving you access to a vast amount of music and the ability to listen before you buy if you prefer physical media, and to listen to music you wouldn't ordinarily try. I think you can probably still do better than the more recent oppos for digital sound in that price range, but you would give up the universal aspect of the oppos.

So what do you think your main future audio direction is? Vinyl or digital?

Both. ;^)

The original ADC converters are invariably flawed. Some discrete ADC units sound pretty good. Anything chip based is suspect. It’s due to the complications of obtaining micro signal changes in an accurate way.

The essence of sound quality to the human ear, is entirely in micro changes to the signal, as a brutally complex set of near randomly intermixing harmonics, signals so complex..they easily exceed sampling rates. To add they mix across the two channels, not just their own reproduction issues, so the problem is multiplied - again.

Therefore Analog to analog, is good. As in -probably better than digital, in most cases.

and....ADC to DAC is almost inevitably flawed in a way that is irretrievable. This includes all forms of SACD, 384, 24 bit anything, whatever....as they are after the fact of the ADC conversion issues.