Listening to digital and analog

Like I said before, analog people like listening to distortion and noise. What is it that drives this phantasy. Does it make you more of a man to own a turntable? I have to own a turntable because I have been collecting records since 1958. That is all we had unless you could afford a reel to reel. My dad had an Ampex. Boy did that sound great, tape hiss and all. 
If I can get a properly mastered 24/96 or 192 file I prefer it to analog. It is magic how the music erupts from a noiseless totally black background. You can NEVER get that out of a turntable I don't care how much you spend. If you think vinyl can beat that my guess would be your system needs work and not just the digital stuff, your speakers and amp. They are not telling you the reality of the situation. Again, I do have records that sound better than the digital counterparts I have heard. This is entirely a mastering issue. I agree, the loudness wars suck, many digital recordings could be done a lot better from the perspective of an audiophile. But, to discount digital entirely is to shoot yourself in the foot which you are entitled to do. 

I find it so interesting that many people prefer listening to distortion. The vast majority of recordings done since the mid 80s are digital. If a digital recording sounds different at all when played back through an analog system, that difference is by definition "distortion." In digital form music is just data, binary numbers, distinct values. As long as the data is not corrupted there is no distortion, none all the way to the final DAC and the first analog step. Remember analog cell phones? pretty bad. Now we have digital phones, clear as a bell regardless of how crappy the signal is until you lose it entirely. 
So, many prefer playing a record made from a digital master to just playing the digital data back through a DAC. Forgetting about background noise and issues generic to vinyl playback but you also add distortion produced by the cartridge and phono stage added to the mix. 
There is absolutely nothing wrong with good digital playback. It is eons superior to analog playback. It is just that some brains can't get a handle on it. Proof that you hear what you think you will here. Lay instinct. 
I think it is amazing how good vinyl playback can get. I certainly have records that sound better than their digital counterparts. But, that difference is a mastering issue and not the fault of digital playback. The best playback I have ever heard was from high resolution copies of digitally recorded music.