What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital?

Hey @millercarbon - you're wrong. In my home, I have only one source plugged in. Turntable. Car & garage -  CD. Unplugged the Nakamichi CD player about 15 years ago when vinyl started back up again. Never tried SACDs, but I've heard they are quite good. Also heard streaming and HiRez DLS compress files and don't sound as good as SACD, but I've never heard either on my stereo. I think it is now tougher to get titles on SACD than vinyl.

+1 to Fagen-Morph the Cat @mwinkc - been looking for that on vinyl for less than $200 used. Forget about new. 2 fantastic songs and I hate to say, in all of his or the Dan's catalogue 2 of the only 3 songs I would ever skip over (other was WB's tune on Everything Must Go which is also not available on vinyl) - RIP Walter. I think Donald has had licensing issues and complains about constantly getting ripped off. I'm just glad I snagged one of the last copies of Sunken Condos. Regular pressing on undyed vinyl that sounds phenomenal. Plus, it's on 2 records (just 3 sides) so it doesn't go close to the very inner part of the record. They really need to reissue/master Royal Scam and Pretzel Logic and press Tow Against Nature, Kamakiriad and Everything Must Go. They'd probably sell out in an hour. 

I would guess if your OP asks about all people, the number is <5% if they have an indoor stereo setup for anything other than background music being piped in. For self described audiophiles it's probably higher, maybe 15-20%.

I hate this term “for convenience “. When I hear that all I hear is, you were too LAZY to clean and play a record. What’s your friggin hurry? Vinyl is and has always been superior to digital. Streaming? Fo’get about it! End of story!

@dletch2  

in poor acoustic environments (most audiophiles rooms)

If they're spending $100K on a system I'd hope they'd have the common sense to spend $3K of that on room treatments. But judging from some of the pictures I see of high-dollar systems surrounded by floor-to-ceiling windows and others with wood floors and bare walls, you may be right.

Judging by pictures, only a small amount of systems have anything but the most basic treatments, and only a small percentage have serious acoustics.  This is supposed to be the pinnacle of high end. I have always felt that is why all the tweaks. It is just different colors of the same wrong.

Judging by pictures, only a small amount of systems have anything but the most basic treatments, and only a small percentage have serious acoustics. This is supposed to be the pinnacle of high end. I have always felt that is why all the tweaks. It is just different colors of the same wrong.

To accentuate and confirm your position, i will say that when people speak about acoustic treatment they think about some passive absorbing, reflective and diffusive surface balance.... Even rightly done this is not enough to tap into the essential sonic quality of a system...it is necessary to complement it...

There exist also a more active way, where a grid of resonators fine tuned and precisely located could increase extraordinarily the benefits of the passive treatment by a better timing between the reflected wavefronts of each speaker in the room...For sure it is not possible in a living room...These resonators are tuned in relation with the speakers behaviour in the room and modify it for the better....But contrary to electronic equalizer they work with a large bandwidth response for the fine tuning and because it is our ears who did the work and not a mic they work for all the room and not only for a very precise location in millimeter....They are part of the speakers/room and not an external tool....

I dont call that a "tweak"....It is a control working over the acoustical dimension....Same thing goes on with vibrations/resonance control, or decreasing the electrical noise floor...These control devices are not secondary addition but necessary precaution to reach optimal S.Q.

All that may cost nothing and cost me nothing by the way....

The reason why people upgrade endlessly is because they ignore how to improve and install their system....
When rightly done upgrading appear like it is: a marketing mantra...Anyway good sound is not a variable " taste", it is a musical perceived phenomenon, a musical natural voice or instrumental "timbre" is an objective experience because there is musicians or acousticians consensus around it...

And to contribute to the vinyl and digital format wars, i am pretty convinced that vinyl resist more to the degradation of S.Q. in bad acoustical room than digital... But digital greatest potential take advantage of very controlled room to shine... Then the 2 format are differently perceived in different environment....They are way less different than people imagine...