Streaming Is To Audio What Red Plastic Cups Are To Wine

I love my collection of SACDs...but if I'm sitting with my wife listening, she can only handle so much of my music. Rather than having to get up and find another disc to play (multiple times a night)...we can use Tidal and play whatever she or I wanna hear.

It's eliminated much bickering about what to listen to.

My experience is that my CD’s ripped to the NAS as AIFF files sounds way better than Qobuz . I just did not enjoy it or connect with it emotionally. I actually really enjoy listening to streams for radio stations. And I gave up vinyl years ago,

The original posting of wine / plastic cup analogy resonated with me. I LOVE my vinyl collection, and concur with many respondents on their reasons why they like vinyl. 
But... as a PhD university professor chemist, I have to throw a little water on the analogy to remind everyone: vinyl IS plastic!

Unfortunately, a lot of music is not available on vinyl - especially going forward in the 21st century.

So I guess you could say, "limiting yourself to vinyl is the red plastic cup of wine for people who truly love music and being part of the world of music."

"Vinyl is it!" 

Oy vey.

I LOVE vinyl. I've been collecting since teenage years quite a few decades ago, except for the years when CD's took over.

I have a collection I love - after all I selected what I like, so I ought to love it. And when I say collection, I mean vinyl, CD's, and cassettes. As well as my curated music on Tidal/Roon.

When it comes to "quality" sound, of course the cassettes are lacking. Yet, I love the way they sound. It has a familiar and I suppose nostalgic sound for me that is familiar and enjoyable.

I'm a Music-First audiophile (a John Darko philosophy). And I only take audiophilia so far - I'm not out for the ultimate magic, just want to do the best I can under my various limitations, such as not being able to acoustically treat my listening areas, or buy all the latest and greatest.

Another limitation is the cost of media. Albums have gotten damn expensive and there's just too much music to hear. That's where CD's come in at a much lower price, and I can still select something and put it on and play it through and look at liner notes, lyrics, etc.

On another note. I'm not so thrilled by the trend of single albums being spread across two disks, resulting in a lot of 12-minute LP sides. I can't say I hear higher quality sound from the disks that way, and it IS a pain in the butt to either let the needle run in the out-groove or get up and stop it. Besides, choosing a side with two or three songs isn't the same as playing Side 1 or Side 2 with a good 5 or 6 songs on them. Roon will play a whole album and I have it set to go right into "radio" mode where it plays complementary music. It's great for discovery and often hits a good groove.

AND - streaming is the best for checking things out. The radio days are long gone for the most part, unless one is committed and adventurous. But I can check stuff out on streaming and then purchase. Just had a recommendation to a band the other day and will listen on streaming. I may end up buying vinyl and seeing them in concert and buying their merch. But I may say, eh, not my thing. Doesn't cost any additional money to check them out.

it's all good. Just went from Tedeschi Trucks on vinyl in my living room to The War on Drugs on CD in my home office right now, and I love hearing music pretty much wherever I am.