Does Age Matter?

65yo. Mixed digital (electronic files) and digital CD. I listen to streaming music via my local public library and from online radio" websites. No vinyl.
Mostly I listen to electronic files, but I never buy it/them. I buy CDs and rip them, because I want hard copies of my music and I want to own, not rent, my music. I back up the electronic copies. I also download mp3 files, that I can keep forever, from my local public library, via a service called Freegal, which additionally has streaming. Freegal is owned by Sony and includes all the sublabels owned by Sony. My local library also has another streaming service called Hoopla, with over 300,000 albums.
I relinquished all my vinyl and my turntable almost 15 years ago. Having lived in multiple locations, including cross country and up and down the coast moves, hauling around vinyl gets a little old. Also the extra space required for a turntable becomes a burden. Not to mention the pops and scratches etched in my memory from younger wild party years, just doesn’t appeal to me any more either.

I'm 71 and have 3 systems, den, living room, bedroom.  All have both digital and analog components.  In the 3 systems, there are 7 working turntables.  I love vinyl.  But what I really love is music.  So most of my listening is digital (streaming mostly), whether on one of those systems or on my computer with headphones (Topping, Bottlehead electronics, many different 'phones).  When I have the time to devote to it, I use one of my turntables.   But I also admit to cheating in my digital listening - many of the playlists that I stream are rips that I have made of my records.  I should also mention that, until this pandemic hit, I went to about 20, mostly jazz and classical, concerts a year.  I count that as analog despite the fact that most of the musicians use their fingers.  

Someone else will have to parse the percentages.

Younger people may have better hearing, but not necessarily better listening.  Knowing how to listen to music--and the genre you're listening to--really impacts what your hear.

I am 75 and like analog a little more than  digital.

55 years old - I think digital sounds better, but I do like using vinyl because it's easy and fun, and vinyl sounds plenty good enough on a good turntable.

I and started getting my own stereo equipment at about age 11 - so about 1976 (paper route money). So my first big love was CASSETTES. And I still love that they allowed us to make our own mixes, most of which I did off the radio, because I had no other source!

In 1981 or so I got a decent turntable and I was immediately impressed with how much better it sounded than my rather inadequate cassette deck. I literally bought that turntable so I could borrow records just to make mixes with. I was planning to get a second cassette deck to make tape to tape dubs. There were no dual well tape decks at the time (that I knew of).

In 1988 or so I got a CD player. It didn't sound as good as my good (subsequent) turntable, but the next CD player certainly did. MP3s were bad, but even they are better now and FLAC is great.

I think good digital like CD or FLAC sounds best. I still prefer using vinyl records or CDs because disks are easy to deal with and fun, and I can own them, unlike so many of the songs in my streaming service playlists.

But I think digital above 128Kbps MP3 sounds best.