You say? How do you figure that out?
Try listening to the Darkside of the Moon final fade on your vinyl system. Then do the same with a CD. On the CD you will hear strains of "Ticket to Ride". It gets totally lost in the background noise on thr vinyl version.
So, just because of it's vastly superior S/N capability, CD is capable of superior resolution.
Chris
By listening to the music.
I am not in the habit of listening to Dark side or to lead out grooves at high volume.
In the interest of "science" I have got hold of the Lp and sacd/cd.
You are quite correct the vinyl does not show up the ticket to ride. However I had to turn the CD up to a much higher volume than i would normally listen to hear trr.
Conversely the vinyl in spite of being quite old sounded much more alive than the CD.
On Time the alarms sounded as if they had been wound up fully - on the CD they seemed flatter by comparison. The background percussion had more attack the sound stage was bigger and deeper, individual instruments and voices are separated out more.
The s/n ratio of CD is not vastly superior. Agreed it is often better but it depends on the quality and cleanliness of the vinyl. I have often compared vinyl to CD with friends and they have been unable to recognise vinyl from excessive background nose. They have invariably preferred the music on vinyl.
CD is a lower resolution to vinyl - it has to be as it is down sampled from the original hi-res master (otherwise it would be a much bigger file size), which could be digital or analogue.
But as you say you enjoy the convenience of digital - what does it matter - you are happy to listen to your streamer, fine. I don't want to limit my listening to only digital.
I am currently listening to Basie Jam #2 it sounds fantastic I just cannot get this quality of sound on CD.