Why didn't I sell my vinyl rig?

AR-2ax, how cool.  I bought a pair of those new in HS.  Then moved up to the AR-3a.  Best speaker of the day.  I drove them with a Dynaco Pre & Power that I built.  It was a killer system.

To me vinyl and digital just sound different.  They will never sound the same.  I find in digital what really matters is what you play back.  Streaming services always suffer from jitter caused by the ‘noise’ between the original website (I have done everything humanly possible to minimize this … but it’s there and won’t go away), to the ISP, to my system.  I get better results playing back flies that I have ripped to my NAS.  Within these files, DSD files are superior to CD quality. 
 

My system is a Lumin X1, Lumin L1, Weiss 502 Mark 2, Sonore opticalModule deluxe, Ediscreation Fiber box II, Ediscreation Silent Switch OCXO

vinyl sound quality may have issues, may not compare to digital favorably, and yet, it will have a soul, deeper than digital ever will. Maybe it’s just in my head.

Right now I'm listening to a selection of oddball Dylan home recordings via Qobuz. A sheer impulse selection on my part. In any case, it sounds very, very good, and Dylan's artistic contribution ain't bad, either. Putting it another way, when you stream it's "welcome to the universe."

I have to say, though, that streaming just isn't quite as reliable as analog. Yeah, I'm 100% hardwired to the net but there are more than a few times when the stream will just stop. It always starts up again when I unplug my streamer/D to A converter and then plug it back in, but this is the second streamer/DA converter I've owned and both of them were guilty of this. With a turntable, arm and cartridge it's usually just sheer clumsiness that interrupts the listening.