Does Age Matter?

this oldster prefers digital by a longshot, but can handle phonographic reproduction assisted by CEDAR declicking/decrackling. 

I think if your records are that bad that you need to decrackle them then you'd best stick to digital.:-)

65 and not into streaming, nor Facebook nor Twitter for that matter.  Still buying both CD's and LP's, and the size of my collection is NOYDB!

With all due respect, this survey will not provide any legitimate insight into your hypothesis.  As some other readers have already pointed out, there are a litany of uncontrolled variables, your sample population is not at all representative of the total population, and so on.

I realize that this is an informal attempt to satisfy your curiosity; however, it is an exercise in confirmation bias, that is going to provide you will with an inaccurate result and the perception/belief that there it holds some degree of credence.

In short, of course age matters... but it matters for a litany of reasons and nostalgia is only one of them.

62. Vinyl and digital. Digital because of convenience and sampling what i might want to buy in vinyl. Also, my vinyl fills gaps in digital's selection. For example, the jazz music of D.C. saxophonist and John Coltrane transcriber Andrew White,  or the album Angels of the Deep by Sweetbottom (fusion): neither are available via streaming. Although I buy a lot of my vinyl through Discogs, I also frequent a local used record store which is owned and operated by 20-something hipsters who dig vinyl.