Analog or Digital and why?

I am only digital but we build our own components.  The phono stage ($15,000) beats the crap out of any digital we have built or heard period.  Not even close but our digital ($10,000) beats the crap out of most analog systems.  So IMO in comes down to mostly the components.  While different recordings have an impact, some of the poorest analog recording sound better than the best digital recordings with our components.

Happy Listening. 

Agreed Bigkidz. Every resistive element, every dielectric, every active device has its own sonic signature. There is nothing like the sound of first class parts, whatever Carver thinks he proved way back when. But they do cost, don't they? I mean vacuum caps ain't cheap, etc. etc.

When CD's first came out, there was a disclaimer stating the crappy sound is the result of the crappy analog source. The discs had AAD printed on them that stood for analog/analog/digital. The only full DDD discs were classical recordings. So maybe a lot of you guys don't remember the bad old days of early CD's. You're very lucky to have the good sounding digital recordings of today. No one had cell phones or GPS either. Or computers...

I have a lot of CD's (3000+) and a lot of Vinyl (2000+) albums. Like them both and play them both...a lot.

Digital because streaming changes the equation--the access to virtually all recorded music outweighs the obsession of optimizing your private, itty-bitty percentage of the whole.. And streaming/DAC's have evolved to phenomenal performance.