Vinyl vs Streaming

So............if digital has surpassed analog, at what point did it occur? 

It depends on the person. Lots of people love the way their digital sounds for most of their music, and that’s fine. Others (like me) still strongly prefer vinyl’s sound for most material. That’s unlikely to change anytime soon unless there’s a new magical tech that restores & remasters older recordings to sound great on modern formats. Also whatever distortions analog introduces at its various stages of "processing" - frankly I think I like them to some degree.

It’s been decades now I’ve been reading about digital "finally matching" or "finally beating" analog THIS YEAR. It’s tiring, and meaningless. They’re just different.

And let’s be real. This is a mostly aged (ahem) crowd whose hearing is changing, and the draw of convenience & downsizing looms large at a certain point. 

For me the over-riding issue is and always has been the availability of the music that I want to hear.  There is still a lot of old jazz that is simply out of print and basically the only way to hear it is on old records.  Or sometimes on re-issues on cd compilations in many cases coming from over seas.  Most of the stuff is not available on any streaming service.  This music could never be considered high level sonically so the issue of what format has the best sound is moot.  

Yeah, they are different, digital is artificial no matter how much it tries to imitate analogue. $300 turntable set up is better than $30k digital in conveying the essence of music.

Availability is an important point too.

And let’s be real. This is a mostly aged (ahem) crowd whose hearing is changing, and the draw of convenience & downsizing looms large at a certain point. 
 

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@mulveling I agree with you but I can only speak from what I hear with my own system. I have no other reference as I don't live anywhere near an audio salon of any kind and I don't know one single person in my area who owns any kind of stereo system that I would care to hear. For those of us who always thought of vinyl as being better, most of us have geared our systems toward vinyl. I'm getting blasted and actually blocked out by pop ups. Will try later. This is very annoying.