How many of you are digital only systems?

I am into both vinyl and digital.  From a cost standpoint there is no debate that bang for the buck digital is the only way to go.  I think that vinyl has a more natural, organic sound but the cost for the improvement ... not worth it.  However many of us are in this hobby, like many hobbies not for the cost but for the sheer enjoyment.  Just in my vinyl rig, turntable, cartridge, step-up transformer and phono section, I have over $25k and that is without buying any records.

My front end is digital streaming, with an on board DAC, into an analog integrated. I'm done with records and CD's.

Like many I feel nostalgic about records and RtoR.

IMO if I added back a TT again the set up would be at least 30K-40K to be on par. To me records need the whole works, starting with a great phono preamp.

Needless to say for well less than 40K one can get everything. 

I have heard both great and poor examples of each.

One thing that's a deal maker for me is being able to skip a track rapidly.

I'm probably 90% digital, streaming dominates, 2500 or so cd rips. I've found optimizing streaming solution to be most complex and interesting undertaking in my audio experience. Since streaming I've been exposed to so much more music, relative cost of music is  amazingly low! Listening sessions greatest variation in genre, every session a steam of consciousness experience.

As for digital sound, only early, lets say prior to 2000 digital recording are generally poor. As a/d and d/a converters have progressively improved so has the sense of naturalness from digital recordings. As for inherent advantages of both formats, I find balance in favor of digital.

I do have well over 2500 vinyl so I've progressively improved my analog setup, just not to the extent I've improved digital. Steam of consciousness listening beats all the necessary involvements of proper playing of precious albums. All the up and down, twenty minutes or so max listening time and having to listen to particular lesser quality cuts bothers me. Still, I do occasionally enjoy all the involvement vinyl requires, the physical nature of this involvement is something streaming and cd rips can't replicate.

Completely digital on all my systems now, you need excellent (pleasing to you, audio signature) DAC and SACD player, putting tubes strategically into the mix of each system IMHO is the clincher. Let’s not forget the convience and shear volume of source material that digital offers. I was forced into digital with the loss of all my vinyl a couple decades ago and it took a long time to adjust because of early digital issues (we all know what those were), but my current system mix has me never looking back. That is not to say that vinyl doesn’t have it’s allure but then I do the math and a good not excellent TT all in with tone arm and cart is $7k and then add in the cost of all new vinyl. Money better spend elsewhere or on other audio improvements. Although I, perhaps, won’t close the door on reel to reel with master tapes somewhere down the line.

I think if you have a vinyl collection in good condition that you enjoy, keep it. If you don't own any vinyl or a turntable, it is probably less expensive to get something very good that can come close to or even meet the vinyl sound, depending on the recording, CD (or preferably SACD) manufactured quality or actual resolution of the streams.

Having been in college during prime collecting and music exploring years before CD players were created, naturally I have vinyl. When they stopped making it in the 90's almost completely, I had to get a CD player (very reluctantly), which was quieter from ticks and pops, but lacked the depth and quality sound of vinyl.  Disconnected it about 15 years ago when vinyl production picked up. Now I am getting my favorite CDs on vinyl, so the record companies win again.

I hear with some streaming and SACDs, digital has really improved a lot, but my tastes haven't changed much, and my favorite artists have largely stopped creating anything new I like, or unfortunately kicked the bucket, so it's 100% vinyl (at home) for me. Car is either Sirius or CDs. Changing channels is a pain, so I prefer CDs.