Analog invites you to turn up the volume

I don't know why people are so resistant to accepting that vinyl has always been much more emotionally involving.  Digital sounds very nice, and then you walk out of the room. You might not even be consciously aware of it. People make all kinds of excuses for the difference in listening habits.  It's likely due to digital chopping the music into bits, then reconstituting it, with jitter, pre and post echo, phase shift, etc.  There's a reason why vinyl records command so much higher prices than cds or even sacds. Sorry folks.

I made the same observation that vinyl sounded more natural and was more emotionally involving in most systems leading up to around 2010 (since 1982 when the CD was released). But the advance of DACs and streamers and ancillary equipment has been huge and now only true when component choices make each leg sound the way they do. They could (with different component choices) sound the opposite.

While certainly the equipment can introduce differences in sound, especially phono cartridges, there is also the issue of mastering. With streaming the provenance is usually unknown, while with vinyl it is usually possible to determine the  mastering chain.  The digital medium itself certainly has a wider dynamic range than vinyl, however this is not always reflected in the music if compression was used in mastering. I have done synchronized A/B level matched comparisons of vinyl vs streamed tracks. Sometimes they are quite different (in that case I usually but not always prefer the vinyl)....sometimes they are virtually indistinguishable. I put most of this down to the mastering.

It’s simple. Vinyl is easier on the ears. I’m not sure if it’s the digital compression with high frequencies or the warmer sound of the vinyl but vinyl doesn’t fatigue my ears like digital.