Vinyl sounds better (shots fired)

Yes, a labor of love.  Maybe it’s my age.  They say frustration tolerance shortens as  you age and returns to that like a child.  I find myself now only tolerating the vinyl ritual when I cannot find a recorded performance on my streaming service.  

The sound of vinyl vs digital depends upon the original mastering and the payback equipment.  Good recording engineering played back on good equipment sounds wonderful regardless.  I have heard vinyl albums such as some 1960s DG offerings that have a more fatiguing treble shrill than some 1970s digital masters when the technology was in its infancy.  I find current streaming digital equivalent or better than vinyl. No clicks, no pops, no ritual (retrieve, clean, play, change sides every 30 minutes), less equipment maintenance (no bearing, arm, and cartridge alignment maintenance, and no demagnetizing, cleaning, and neurosis over stylus and cantilever damage).