Does Age Matter?

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.

I have noticed a bunch of comments mentioning vinyl as "a scratchy sound." For most records that are well cared for and played with a good stylus well set up this is just not true. Vinyl can be very quiet. Yes, there is the occasional bad pressing and bad scratch, maybe even a skip but these are few and far between. Why do I keep listening to vinyl in spite of having a great collection of digital files. Well, I have a lot of records certainly in the thousands. I use to spend hours flipping through vinyl at the store and still love to. Flipping through CDs is just not the same. I use to buy records just because I loved the cover. I am always amazed at how good dragging a rock through a trench can sound. Digital sounds great also. When I'm busy there is no competition even though I have an end of record lift. I can totally understand some of use migrating to digital.
That's more records for the rest of us:-)

No, it’s not age that matters. It’s having a set of ears that matters, for anyone who can hear correctly can hear that analog is far superior to digital. And although I’m 65 age has nothing to do with being able to hear. Who buys streaming audio downloads! What goes for quality audio today is nuts. Back in the day it was tubes and a turntable. Today it’s the same. You disagree, that’s alright, do your thing!