Vinylistas and Tubers - One and the same?


I am curious to see if I am in the small minority of Goners who listen exclusively to vinyl (or who have some digital source they use only when the can't get the album on a vinyl new release or reasonably priced in NM condition) and use solid state amps and phono stage. My reasons are I've been building my vinyl collection for the past 40+years, interrupted by the 10-15 years when vinyl wasn't being produced or distributed much in the US from the late 80's until the early 2000's and think it sounds better than CDs - never tried hi rez DLs or streaming, and I don't want to deal with the cost, inconvenience, unreliability (compared to SS) or heat of tubes. 

Please let me know if this describes you and your reasons.

Also, interested in the logic of those who use tubes and listen to digital.

Don't really need to hear from the digital SSers or the vinyl tubers unless your reasons are not obvious (either wanting no noise and maximum selection or like the full sound of vinyl with mid range emphasis and tube mellowness and are willing to pay the price).


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" Also, interested in the logic of those who use tubes and listen to digit"

My " logic", I prefer the sound of tube vs ss equipment, like that I can roll tubes to get a different flavor of things, there’s little offered on vinyl for the music genre I mostly prefer, have good digital gear and thoroughly enjoy my listening sessions. If there is some "logic" beyond that that needs to be employed please provide it
" If your highest priority is to hear .... some particular music not on vinyl .... then stream SS and keep telling yourself it sounds good enough. For in that case it probably does."

I don’t stream, not going to give up what I enjoy listening to simply to switch to vinyl, don’t keep telling myself it sounds good enough , it does sound good . I’ll keep my tube and digital gear and sit back and enjoy the music that I like listening to versus compromising and listen to just anything simply because it's on vinyl.