The fact you listened to your streaming setup for that long without firing up the vinyl rig tells me you were very content with the sound quality. I suspect what you're hearing now is only difference, give it more time to determine final conclusions. I have quality vinyl and streaming setups, there is difference, but I can no longer judge one as superior to the other. For those like me who've long judged vinyl as the reference for sound quality, getting the clocking optimized is the final part of the secret sauce that made my streaming/digital setup competitive/equal to the analog. Transparency/resolution relatively easy, sense of ease that comes from correct timing is harder to come by, analog has the inherent advantage here, digital needs attention to detail with this.
It's been a long time.
Long time member, very infrequent poster. Haven't listened to my analog set up in quite a while, almost 2 years since I got engrossed in my digital streaming set up.
So, I decided to listen to 2 quality recorded vinyl albums this afternoon, what a pleasant treat.
There is in my set up, a warm, rounded, sense of bloom to the music, everything else being the same. In digital, I notice a slight sharper edge to the notes, maybe, it's all in my head and confirmation bias. It kind of reminds me why I am drawn to music in the first place.