Upgrade Suggestions please

@maprik remastered reissues sound worse than the originals in a lot of cases. 
The albums of older recordings on streaming are mostly remastered versions.

When I buy vinyl I try to either buy original pressings or new AAA vinyl (analog productions, craft, blue note tone poet, rhino AAA) or MoFi pressings. I have Dire Straits Communique original as well as MoFi. Both sound better than the streaming versions. 

But that’s not just vinyl vs digital. It’s the level of your components. 
Again, you can get your digital up a level or 2 and you’ll enjoy it more. Vinyl will always sound different though. At least at reasonable price points. 
 

Your choices are - enjoy both, or use streaming for discovery and to listen to albums that you don’t want to spend money on buying and listen to it because it’s super convenient, and listen to vinyl when you really want to enjoy the unique experience it offers including all the involvement required from you to play a vinyl record (in my mind it adds to experience). 
 

Can you articulate the aspects of digital playback that pale in comparison to vinyl?
 

I have tried to get to the place where you’re aiming and feel pretty good about where I’ve landed.  As others have noted, it’s not a fair comparison to compare a relatively inexpensive digital rig with a very expensive analog rig.  For me, I still enjoy rig more but that has more to do with the tactile experience of it and the fact that I seek out the best sounding vinyl so there is selection bias.  That said, objectively, I think my digital rig sounds as good as my vinyl with the same well recorded music.  For analog, I have a Clearaudio Performance DC Wood with a Sumiko Starling and a Keces LPS running into a Gold Note PH10+PSU10 - all in somewhere in the low 5 figures at MSRP. For Digital, I went simple and run an Aurender A15 with ethernet run through an ifi filter thing - all in just shy of $10k at current MSRP.  Both systems are aimed at my preferences for musicality over extreme detail.  Both run into a Pass INT-25 into DeVore Gibbon 9.  Both are a very enjoyable listen so my choice is driven by my mood based on whether I feel like interacting with the system (vinyl) or trying new music etc (digital). 

@audphile1 Just a loss of fullness I think. Listening to the first pressing of Abbey Road is just spine tingling in its dynamics, fullness of vocals and instruments. Ringo’s thumpy drumming and highhat!!! Everything just very real. The streaming versions sound lighter, thinner, not as alive. That’s the best I can describe. 

@jecopo and @audphile1  Yes, I’m starting to think the same way. Streaming has really opened up my exploration of new music and has resulted in some vinyl purchases. And its great fun exploring musical rabbit holes with seemingly limitless discovery. I think I need to change my mindset and embrace what you stated. Streaming as an exploratory tool. Again, its only in A/B comparing to vinyl that I felt disappointment in my digital rig. 

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