Vinyl - One Word - WOW!!

Vinyl is pure nostalgia, don't get too wrapped up into it.  If you want true analog, you need to go R2R but bring deep pockets.

They are both capable of fine performance but digital sources are far more cost effective. Vinyl playback is a REALLY deep rabbit hole. You can't match the best digital performance until you spend at least $35,000 in total on a record playing set up. You still have to contend with bad pressings, warped records and a host of other issues. 

Us old guys with huge record collections have no choice but younger people without records are better off staying digital and spending the money on music. 

WOW

I stopped listening to vinyl because it didn't sound too good, I got tired of changing the steel needle and cranking the arm to wind the motor after every song LOL!

The OP, according to previous and current posts, is using a basic, 15 year old, Marantz CD player and  1980's Denon 50 Watt per channel Receiver into B & W speakers and prefers the vinyl playback of Project Debut Carbon Evo turntable. I'm not surprised!

JJbeason14, any discussion regarding vinyl playback is better served when we know the rest of the vinyl playback chain, ie cartridge and phono preamp.

Not trying to be critical,  but this forum is a wealth of user knowledge and experience with much to learn. 

And now a  few ramblings on my digital experiences.

I feel the  vinyl vs digital debate, it is less relevant as digital has matured. They both can sound fantastic when done right and rather much less so when done wrong,. This forum is full with members extolling the virtues of their recent purchases, " I just bought/heard the  blah blah blah, its' a gamechanger". It makes us audiophiles feel good after we see the visa bill!. 

My personal experiences  streaming music on Tidal with a Lumin U1 mini and Musician R2R DAC is that many older releases have been remastered for the better ....guess what?....not too Shabby sounding at all. 

 I can now populate my musical choices almost exclusively to releases that have both great music and  great sound .

At my age, life's too short to listen to badly recorded music no matter how good the  content. With digital streaming, there is more well recorded and brilliant music than one could listen to in 10 lifetimes.... all with  subscription that costs pennies a day. I like that! These are in some ways good times for music lovers.

I just got a Project Debut Carbon Evo for the holidays. This is my first turntable since the 70's, and it does indeed sound stunning with a good vinyl pressing.  (If you like Phish, try the LP on LP releases for great sounding vinyl).  Even more remarkable, many of my LPs from the 70s, which were boxed up and stored in the early 80s, sound great after a run in the Record Doctor V that someone recommended to me. 

While vinyl will never replace the many terabytes of great live music that I enjoy, it will have a permanent place in my system once again.

The first 2023 suggestion for a 10's of $1000's Purchase to experience a high quality replay is out there. "Ding Dong" .