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
Whilst it’s true CD and streaming are capable of a much wider dynamic range, the opposite is normally true in practice. CD and streaming masters are horribly squashed whereas the vinyl masters typically have significantly more dynamics.
Most seem to miss this point. This is especially true of remasters and modern recordings.
Check for yourself: https://dr.loudness-war.info/