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
No amount of dsd or flac data will live up to what some audiophiles want to hear. Music is emotion, some people prefer wobbly vinyl an scratchy needles running through low power tune amps and back loaded fullrangers. There are many paths!