Have you asked yourself this question?

Funny you should mention this topic.

At the moment I am trying to decide this exact thing. Whether to sell everything analog or to keep my turntable (VPI Scoutmaster w/ Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood cartridge) and a few hundred albums.

To illustrate how divided I am. I have not listened to one record since my divorce and downsizing 8 years ago, yet I just bought a wall mount for the turntable and I am picking up a few records later today.

The main reason for this is a mixture of the convenience of digital and the amount of space that 1,500 records take up in a 700 sq. ft condo. When everything was analog, things just were what they were. Getting up every 20 minutes to change a record, cleaning your records, putting away a pile of records on Sunday morning, etc. However, I am about to turn 69 years old and I am just tired of the process.

Kind of like how, since retirement, I no longer golf in the rain.

Truth be told, if there was an easy method of sorting, cataloguing and selling a 1,000+ albums, I would have pulled the plug years ago.

@mijostyn I’m old school. The DAC i chose does not have a USB input, as I am looking for the best SQ. I chose it because it is a dual mono DAC and I believe that the SP/DIF connection via Co-ax sounds better than any USB connection I have heard. As a consequence of no USB, I am not going to be using my Mac Pro and will stream in the future only from a streamer that features a Co-ax output, which IME the better ones do. YMMV.

@tony1954 

I think that you have already made your decision. Go with it.

I just bought a new turntable. I’ve been an analog fan for over 50 years, I like everything about it. It’d be difficult for me to give up the sonic pleasure it provides.
Streaming—the equipment and the services—is getting better and better but if you already have a nice analog setup, I think you should keep it around. My friends who dumped their records and players in the ‘80’s for digital wish they hadn’t.

Haven't seriously collected records since CD’s hit the scene, but still have probably 500. Have a turntable set-up properly and spin a disc occasionally, probably more than anything to show people and let them hear it.

But now that I am retired and have more time to devote to listening to music its almost 100% streaming for me, the amount of great new music coming out and the ability delve into the back catalogs of artists make me wish I only had more time for it! Its more about the music than the medium.