i completely get preferring analog media, so if it’s about the sound characteristics (that ‘warmth’), having physical media, etc fair enough. but if the goal of an audiophile is to get the highest quality reproduction of a recording wouldn’t CDs or FLACs be your best bet?
maybe this only really applies for newer music, perhaps digital releases for music recorded analogue are just digitized vinyl or reel to reel recordings but for music produced in DAWs the highest quality version available for that release would surely be either a CD or a digital FLAC release
It honestly just connects you more to music and makes albums less of an abstract thing. I find it harder to get attached and truly fall in love with an album if it dosent have a physical release. Something about streaming just feels temporary and fake. I like knowing that I’ll always have this album, and even if I stop listening to the band, it’s still a physical remininder of the person I was at that time. Physical media can kinda tell a story lol