are digital recordings on vinyl any better than CD

Tostados, it's not at all subjective in regard to LP or CD when the total cost of your analog rig is a minimum of 4K. I know I said 3K once before, but cartridges seem to have gone up, so that is 3K for the table and in the vicinity of 1K for the cartridge.

I have it with the "analogers" (that's what I call them) because their always making outlandish claims, like a run of the mill TT will sound better than CD, and that's just not true.

Inna I have a Technics 2 track that I listen to a lot. Most of the time I listen to the playback list on the computer.

A few years ago, Stereophile ran articles on the best audiophile cards to install in your computer, and there was a lot of discussion here about down loading your LP's (you have to have the proper interface) Although there's a lot of reading involved, it's not expensive as "audiophile" equipment goes, and it's well worth all the time and effort. It also helps to know a computer "geek".

Right now I'm enjoying LP's on computer play back, and not missing any nuance on a recent cartridge upgrade.

Orpheus10,
I appreciate your gift, thank you, but unfortunately I'll have to decline.
As I said, I am not ready now for reel to reel project, and when I embark on any project I try to do it right. In this case this would involve going all over the deck, servicing and aligning it, in addition to fixing clutch and whatever else might be close to breaking.This would be quite expensive but worth it. Besides, I was thinking of highest performance, that's two track deck. And I would need at least twenty or so reels plus good balanced cable to get it going.
Perhaps, you could reconsider and have it fixed. You play tapes a lot. I just don't want to imagine it being thrown away. It's good machine, it doesn't deserve it.

The digital Mahler 4th by Bernstein is one of my best sounding records.  Its a stunner...the performance is also supurb

Can anyone explain why digitally remastered cassettes sound so good? Take Kind of Blue for example. The digitally remastered cassette is powerful, dynamic and engaging, quite unlike many of Kind of Blue CD incarnations which can sound kind of blah. Ditto the epic live AC/DC cassette, also digitally remastered, If You Want Blood.