Vinyl sounds better (shots fired)

My audio system is set up for vinyl (6,000+ LPs). I do have a decent CD player (400 CDs). I have no streaming. 

I listen to streamed music on my cell phone or computer when I’m not in my audio room. 

The universe is infinite. 

Uhm. Seriously:

I bought my first LP when I was 11.

I now have 6,000+.

I came of age during the LP era, and I never stopped collecting and listening to them.

“Better” is an irrelevant question. We have our preferences. I have mine, which might be characterized as loyalty. And ritual: I was raised Catholic and though I’ve been agnostic since I was 14, I transferred my affection for sacred rites onto this neurotic obsession, maybe as a therapeutic approach to justifying the trouble and expense  

But.

To my ears, vinyl sounds rich warm and silky. Digital sounds thin sterile and gritty.