Though not as experienced as many on here, my 2 cents: I stream digitally recorded or mastered music. And when I can get a good AAA pressing or original or good re-issue of an analog recording, I often prefer the LP.
Specifically, I enjoy 50s/60/70s jazz on vinyl. There just seems to be more bite and presence. For whatever reason, a lot of older jazz stuff, when mastered for digital (CD or streaming), just ends up sounding a bit too neutral or lifeless to me. Un-involving, for lack of a better term.
Exactly. One must ask the question, If listening to NativeDSD through high resolution DACs either from files or streaming always sounds better than the same file converted to analogue the transferred to vinyl, why do it? If digital-to-vinyl recordings always sound "lifeless", why do it? And the final question, why is it those record producers (the majority) who release LPs that were recorded from digital sources never print a warning on those LP covers that they were recorded from digital files and will not satisfy, why is that? Why pretend to be something they will never be?
Other than fone', I know of no other record producers that only records music with just two or three valve-microphones, pushed closer or further to balance, using pure analogue process throughout to the 1/2 inch master tape.
If only current leading musicians would realise what they are loosing out on. If only one or two big names (who don't need their voices processed, or their timing corrected) like Adel, went to fone' (or anyone else recording music in that exact way) and through them cut one great analogue recording on tape or LP, it would save analogue. I suspect those making the money, those with the contracts, will never let it happen.
For the sake of ease and greater profits, record companies and their recording engineers have just about finished putting the death nail in analogue.