[bruno2009]

... I have actually found a Situation when streaming Tidal comes in handy - I own several pressings of great music on Vinyl that were only released in this stupid „colored/splatter“ Vinyl... or worse still - as picture disc. In this case the quality of the vinyl is indeed inferior. This is something that has been annoying me for quite some time and I usually refuse to rebuy the same album on CD. In this case Tidal is actually useful. Generally I think it really depends on the used mastering and on Vinyl also the quality of the pressing.

Well pressed Vinyl from a good master (analog preferred) always sounds best - but then there are inferior pressing and/or different masters used on digital sources.

The way to go is probably really to run all three sources and select the best quality available...