What percentage of the time do you listen to records vs. digital sources?

The ratio has been changing over the last couple decades from 90% vinyl to now 98% digital. The last couple years I upgraded to a top level streamer as well as up graded the rest of my components to tube equipment. Now digital is just as satisfying as analog, with only a tiny… tiny bit of more detail from my analog end. In the past, the digital side just didn’t have the musicality… I would “channel surf” to find something that would sound good. Now almost everything sounds good. My 2,000 albums are increasingly collecting dust.

I have a Silent Running isolation platform arriving on Friday for my contemporary Linn LP12. I think it will kick up the performance of my analog end. But the digital side is so musical, with such great imaging, soundstage and balance, I don’t think it will shift my listening… but you never know.

I'm playing digital right now. The XLO demagnetizing tracks are on CD. That's about 15 min of digital almost every day. Oh. Wait. Listen to? Listen to? 🤣🤣🤣 I hear it. Wouldn't call it listening. 🤣🤣

At least 90% of my listening is from digital sources—primarily 5,000 CD’s ripped to WAV files.  Almost all of my listening to classical is digital—most releases in the past 25 years are available only from digital sources, modern classical recordings are very well done, short playing time interrupting a movement is not a problem, and quiet passages are not plagued by ticks and pops.

Older popular music and jazz is a different matter—a lot of digital reissues are pretty crappy—thin, brittle sounding and compressed.  I am quite lazy so I do put up with some sonic compromises, but, I do pull out favorite vinyl albums when I am in the mood.  

I listen to about 80% CDs and 20% vinyl. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. But when you hear an LP that sounds like this reissue of Kind of Blue, then you're hearing what analog can do better than digital >>>

https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/148512/Miles_Davis-Kind_of_Blue-UHQR_Vinyl_Record

Frank

ghdprentice and larryi,

My experience has been very similar to yours.
Digital  has gotten much friendlier, and the quality is now outstanding. Analog may still be a shade better, but the gap has narrowed considerably.