Digitally recorded vinyl vs streaming

To knock digital out of the park or to put it another way to have it sound as good as as a fancy vinyl set up it takes a lot more than an entry streamer. All sorts of info you can dive into here. Just search.

With a service like Qobuz the voluminous amount on offer along with ease is why many choose streaming.

Assuming your system/room is jake both have great and poor recordings. So…

I love vinyl but choose to stream. Like recordings both can be marvellous or not  

In ultimate terms ifyou spend say $12k on analog  and the same on digital 

digital is much quieter  ,better dynamic range, Lower Bass 

it’s a fact a turntables is only capable of under 13 true bits 

digital 20 bits , and sonically digital has come along way in the last 5 years and to have a library at the touch of a button on your tablet digital is now better ,

on low expensive like a $5k setup a turntable is better buy a dac at least around $5k on up digital then can hold it down ,but you need  high quality usb cables 

good ethernet cables and upgraded switches , and on router a good Linear Zpower Supply . That’s why I say $12-15 k excellent digital on up $$ .

@mojo771 

There is no fixed answer to this because it depends on the quality of the playback system but also where the material is sourced from and, critically, when it was mastered.

Just to give an example. I very recently did an a/b/c comparison of a very well recorded album, copies of which I have on vinyl, cd, and available on streaming.

The album in question was originally recorded on a Studer A800 2 inch analogue multitrack and mastered to DAT.

My copy of the album dates to the time of original release as is the CD.

All of the playback equipment is of a high standard - Esoteric CD and network DAC and Clearaudio/Passlabs vinyl playback.

In terms of sound quality, the vinyl sounds best, slightly better than the streamed file, but both are better than the CD by quite a margin.

But that's just one specific instance. Other instances could give a completely different result.

You mention 60s and 70s albums and say they were probably recorded digitally.

They won't have been because there was no digital recording then.

But many have since been re-mastered digitally.

If you want to be sure of pure analogue sound, buy records issued before the late 1970s.

Clearthinker, I actually meant, and thought I said, that the 80's and 90's were probably digital.  I know the 60's and 70's were not.