Analog invites you to turn up the volume

When it came in printed format, I used to read UHF Magazine (originally Hi-Fi Sound), a Montreal-based journal. The editor had a bee in his bonnet about the idea that if you constantly felt the need to turn up the volume there was something less than ideal in your system. Well, just as a cigar is sometimes just a cigar, I think that sometimes it just sounds so good I want more!

Either vinyl or digital can be optimized for superb sound.  No way a basic digital rig can compare with an optimized  vinyl setup, and visa versa.

Different sources sometime play louder, or, less loud, at the same volume levels, just like sometime volumes levels change from track to track.  I found that streamed music on my audio rig sounds just as satisfying to me at loud volume levels as my CD or vinyl set-ups ever did.  Happy listening.       

The overall presentation characteristics are created by your equipment not the media. Each leg, digital or analog is a chain of electronics that produce the characteristics you hear at the end. One can sound exceptionally better or worse or different depending on that chain.

@ghdprentice

The overall presentation characteristics are created by your equipment not the media.

Sorry, but this is only partially true. The media (digital vs. analog) matters. 

EDIT: Whether you prefer one or the other is a matter of personal preference.