Vinyl sounds better (shots fired)

Uhm. Seriously:

I bought my first LP when I was 11.

I now have 6,000+.

I came of age during the LP era, and I never stopped collecting and listening to them.

“Better” is an irrelevant question. We have our preferences. I have mine, which might be characterized as loyalty. And ritual: I was raised Catholic and though I’ve been agnostic since I was 14, I transferred my affection for sacred rites onto this neurotic obsession, maybe as a therapeutic approach to justifying the trouble and expense  

But.

To my ears, vinyl sounds rich warm and silky. Digital sounds thin sterile and gritty.

That is some thing I always felt....but I feel it depends,on the recording...

Different presentations:

• Digital- filters
• Analog - cartridges - Koetsu stone, Lyra Atlas, DS Audio, SPU, DAVA field coil, Grado Epoch, ETSURO-GOLD,……

Not to pick on anyone. But, this statement:"I find vinyl replays it closer to how it sounds in Meyershoff, Carnegie or David B. Geffen halls." is so condensed as to not communicate any useful information.

The statement would have to be at least: I find vinyl played through a X cartridge, Y tone arm, on my Z turntable, with my AA phonostage, BB Preamp, CC amp, and DD Speakers. That gets you close... maybe explaining the interconnects, power cords and speaker wires are not necessary to get truth across. 

I can easily say that my friends cheap Rega and all Schiit components with sound terrible in comparison to my streaming system... you can see mine under my ID. Or my vinyl system just blows away my office streaming system and attribute it to the media and not the equipment it is being reproduced on. 

I guess I'm lucky. When I'm listening to vinyl I can't imagine switching back to digital. And when I'm streaming favorite track after favorite track, I never switch back to vinyl. Whatever I'm engaged with at the moment is the superior format.