Vinyl vs Streaming

I love streaming and use it most of the time.  

But my analog rig sounds just as good and maybe I’m the exception, but I get no surface noise at all on records, only a few ticks and pops once in a while.

While streaming is more convenient, vinyl wins hands down for sound quality. That’s why I sold my streaming gear. If you love music, go with vinyl (my opinion).

If you  put quality from router lps ,to quality  Ethernet hub ,dac  and cables of high 

quality then digital is superior  on several levels 

I tried streaming again and it can sound very good on its own. And I’m sure one can find pristine hi-res tracks / albums in isolation that fare very well against the vinyl copy. But across most material, I still find streaming to fare poorly against CD, and CD to fare poorly against vinyl. The gap to vinyl is still quite large IMO. I was particularly disappointed to not be able to replace my CD player - and the obnoxious tedium of burning of CDs from FLACs - at this time. 

Not too long ago, a good friend with more experience in digital/streamers told me "you'll need to spend at least $5K to get a streamer you won't absolute HATE". He turned out to be right, maybe even a little optimistic there.

Some folks still prefer horse and buggies. There is something to be said about that.  
 

Just saying…..