Why didn't I sell my vinyl rig?

I have to say, though, that streaming just isn't quite as reliable as analog. Yeah, I'm 100% hardwired to the net but there are more than a few times when the stream will just stop. It always starts up again when I unplug my streamer/D to A converter and then plug it back in, but this is the second streamer/DA converter I've owned and both of them were guilty of this. With a turntable, arm and cartridge it's usually just sheer clumsiness that interrupts the listening.

I absolutely do not have, and have never had (since the 1980s anyway), the problem of vinyl sounding better than digital.

Vinyl does sound different, noisier actually, and I do acknowledge that some people like it, and that's fine.  I guess they like a certain lushness or whatever.  Maybe it depends on the speakers one is using.  

I still have a nice turntable and some good vinyl... which I never use except as a "nostalgia trip" every once in a while.  I view it mainly as clutter, and may get rid of it, just like I ridded myself of other "vintage" nostalgia-type components.

@skinzy Wow, your digital streaming section is at that cost level and you still say say vinyl sounds better. I stepped into streaming a year ago in the $1k range. Its not bad, but Im must be way out of the ballpark to even come close to hearing that warmer sound as my vinyl section provides.

My tt, cart & phono stage are 1/3rd the cost of your digital section. The whole rig is very transparent. You hear what you get. Quality recordings sound great. Fair to bad recordings I dont play anymore.

If I stream for awhile, I kind of acclamate to it, but if I put on a good vinyl pressing after, its like oh my system does sound better.

Yeah, maybe if you ditch your analog you ll acclamate to the digital sound.

I just love both equally, vinyl and streaming. To differ one from the other would be nit-picking in my system.

What's with the use of the word rig? Kind of weird. Anyone who thinks streaming sounds equivalent to analog/vinyl is delusional. No freaking way, not even close.